Getting further ot,

Word has been around for almost 30 years so there is no reason why anyone should complain about its use, its also one of the easiest programs to use (up to Word 97' then after that the interface got annoyingly top heavy and insanely overpopulated, the latest revision is so ridiculously complex - plus always wants to save its default to the .docx type, it becomes garbage) but if you can use wordpad, you can use Word... Quite frankly, why we are all using Word today is it was a lot easier to use then Wordperfect which we're all talking about a program that went back to CP/M days... Outlook - eh, its got its plus' and minus' - I stop using it years ago due to all of the security flaws in it, plus it was such a slow prog and a resource hog - though now lately - Thunderbird is getting a bit sluggish and sometimes goes outta control memory usage insane... So what should we do? Go back to edlin or vi for wordprocessing? Maybe Electric Pencil? as for email, hey lets go back to uucp mail programs or maybe lets use SNDMSG, you don't like Outlook, lets go back to MS Mail.... ;-)

Tony Duell wrote: >> Of late the negativity in CCTALK has reached somewhat epic >> proportions - and >> people are coming across in a rather poor light. Many posters seem to be >> permanently stuck in the stone age and appear to hate anything >> produced in >> the last 30 years. > > Yep, and there's a darn good reason for that. Almsot nothing produced > in the last 30 yerars has improved my life one bit. > >> This post is a perfect example : >> >> "Outhouse" and "Weird" - hate to tell you but both of those particular >> products have been the business standard for quite a few years now >> and a lot > > I refucse to regard them as standards for one very good reason. They > are not fully documented. The 'stnadard metre' is a standard. It's > docuemtned, I can in principle recreate it at home. But just try > getting enough docuemntation to fully interpret a Word file. >...