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A family member who hasn’t worked with computers before has decided to change jobs. You’ve been asked to explain some of the basics. You begin by explaining the basic idea of word processing software, spreadsheets, databases, and presentation software. You sense that the following question is coming: “Why so many different things? Why can’t there just be one software that you could use for everything?” How would you answer?

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It will be full of bugs with the software being in that state.
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That due to the specific tasks that needs to be accomplished by each program to make an all encompassing program would be inefficient and full of bugs
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