On 12 Apr 2007 at 17:33, Jim Battle wrote:
This is pretty silly. There is a lot to criticize
microsoft for, but I
don't think this is one of those things. It is just normal market
forces. If MS could get as many $$ per copy selling wordstar, they'd do
that since it would take a lot less money to develop and support.
People like the promise of new doo-dads, even if they end up not using
them. Is that something MS should take the blame for, or the customers
who buy it?
Drifting a bit off-topic, but you'll see a change in thinking in the
newest version of Word. The problem can be that there is just *too
much* stuff for most humans to deal with.
I still get a fair amount of work from publishers whose authors still
perfer to write their stuff on an old word processor or electronic
typewriter--no bells or whistles, just pages and pages of double-
spaced manuscript.
While I used an add-on package to prop space using WS 3.3 under CP/M,
it wasn't pretty. Neither, for that matter, was WS 2000 under x86
DOS. The basic problem was that when you wanted PS, the "WYSIWYG"
idea went out the Window (sorry!).
Was there ever manufactured a non-graphics display terminal that
could display proportional spacing text?
Cheers,
Chuck