4 Oct
2011
4 Oct
'11
7:33 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Curt @ Atari Museum once stated:
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...
It's perhaps apocryphal, but I heard that the university I attended in the
early 90s now require students in the Computer Science and Engineering
department to submit their soure code in Microsoft Word format. I'd like to
think that's not true, but given that I know for a fact they got rid of the Unix
work stations in favor of Microsoft based work stations, and they no longer
run their own email server (the IT department of the Univeristy [1] took
over that role) I don't find it hard to believe.
It's funny though, that the company I work for is a heavy user of
Microsoft products, yet our division (or office) *no one* uses Microsoft
Windows. Easy to see why when all our software needs to run under Solaris.
Everyone at our office uses either a Mac or a Linux laptop.
-spc (basically, the laptops are there to log into the Solaris boxes)