5 Apr
2013
5 Apr
'13
11:31 p.m.
On 5 April 2013 17:58, Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com> wrote:
Oh, except the Microsoft problem: my daughter's
homework is often sent to
her in the latest version, which can't be read by any version that runs on
a PPC-based Mac. Fortunately, my work laptop is a Macbook Air, but that's
not an actual solution for the problem of anti-sustainable product churn.
-- Ian
While not an actual solution, and many will also find this unteneable; but
I just simply refused to upgrade from Office 2003. There's a compatibility
patch thing that lets Office 2003 use some of the Office 2007 and later
formats, and that's fine for me.
I refused to upgrade not because of compatibility reasons but because I
utterly *loathe* the redesigned interface for Office 2007 and later (also
the reason I am going to refuse to get Windows 8, because W8's interface
makes me feel that the correct method of interface is "slowly bang head
against wall until unconscious").
Can we just go back to VT-220 compatible terminals with ReGIS and Tek
graphics, on PDP-11s, please? That would be nice.
Cheers,
Christian