RE: Security vs. popularity
The statement in this article: "As more people clamor for particular features and interface changes, developers are under increasing pressure to appease those people?s demands...This is how poorly secured bloatware generally comes to be." is not entirely accurate.
Users are not asking for bloatware. The people clamoring for particular features and interface changes often seem to be the software developers themselves.
For example, Microsoft Office versions after 2003 require experienced users to learn how to use them over again, at considerable cost in time and frustration. In addition, unless those users create their own set of buttons, also at considerable cost in time, everything they do using the new Office "menu" system (ribbons) is slower because it requires more mouse-clicks.
I do not believe you will find a lot of people who appreciate being pushed to expend all that time and effort in exchange for receiving no compensating benefit in return. No-one clamored for this. If anyone is clamoring for anything it might be for the existing software to be fixed and then left alone.
