RejZoR's little secrets

I'm tracking lots of software programs and technologies, lurking around on forums and i've come across term "bloated software" or in short "bloatware", quite often. However almost 3/4 of the time, this term is used completelly wrong.
It seems like people are using it for almost anything and because of that it kinda lost its real meaning. Most of the time users call programs "bloatware" when they use slightly more resources or have a feature or two thats not so commonly used. Thats also what you'll find on Wikipedia under "bloatware".
However thats not really a correct definition of word "bloatware". Software is really defined as bloatware when there are features beyond basic and main functionality of the program.

For example if we take antivirus software as example. If antivirus also includes other software functionality like anti-spyware features, HIPS, firewall, sandboxing technology, different tools to analyze files and system, that really cannot be treated as bloatware. Sure it then falls under category "Internet Security suite" but still, all the features serve the same purpose and generally suplement each other. And they are all security related.

On the other end there there are programs that are indeed bloatware and are also often called "kitchensinkware". Not sure who invented this term but i remember seeing it on some forum for the first time years ago . Basically it means that you pack bunch of pretty much unrelated tools and features and pack them in a huge software package. If i countinue antivirus analogy, this means that software package with antivirus also includes firewall (usually), disk defragmenter, file and registry cleaner, system tweaker, security tweaker, process manager and bunch of stuff thats mostly not related together and are very distant in it's basic functionality. Sure this may fall under "system maintenance suites" like Norton SystemWorks or iolo System Mechanic. Some ppl like such programs but in general these are bloatware as a whole. Features and functionality doesn't really count. They just follow "the more the better" philosophy. And even in this case, System Mechanic wasn't always bloated. At version 4 or 5 it was a very specific purpose utility for system cleaning that turned into massive bloatware.

Program may be buggy or badly coded, but that doesn't mean it's bloated!
So, next time you're about to call some program bloatware, think if it's really a bloatware.
Because most of programs aren't

I need few users who are already using Windows 7 RC to test my Need for Speed 3 and 4 compatibility patches.

DOWNLOADS:
Need for Speed 3 Vista Patch

Need for Speed 4 Vista Patch

Please report your findings here if these two patches still work on Windows 7 (32bit and 64bit).
They should since Win7 isn't much different than Vista, but still, i want to be sure (but i don't have Win7 yet). Also don't forget to post some details about system used (hardware and drivers, especially those for graphic card).
Many thanks to everyone willing to test this for me.