5 Oct
2011
5 Oct
'11
1:34 a.m.
On 10/4/11 3:07 PM, "Curt @ Atari Museum" <curt at atarimuseum.com>
wrote:
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...
I remember a gag textfile on the kamasutra of wordperfect. Some of the
keystroke combos were byzantine IIRC.
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...
I use outlook when I am at an employer that requires it. My last gig was at
a fortune 5 (or 10, I forget exactly) and the corporate standard was outlook
under windows xp. However our group had a lot of intel macintoshes, and we
were using Entorage (while it can be unstable with certain embedded
javascript) it is far less likely to corrupt it's own mailstore. The
corporate helpdesk unilaterally implemented a forced reboot every 24 hours
for windows machines, and the way they did it did not allow outlook to close
gracefully, it regularly corrupted the PST file for outlook, and for those
of us who had to work remote after hours or on weekends, until we installed
a ssh host on the windows boxes it was quite common for us to not be able to
get onto the machines when they were forcibly rebooted (remote access
service does not always restart when XP reboots, sometimes you actually have
to log into the console of the machine to get it working)
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....
;-)