Step back a get a little perspective.
If it walks like a duck, smells like a duck and quacks like a duck ...
it's a DUCK !
MS is consistent in it's mediocrity and the public's opinion is also
notably consistent. Office 07, Vista, Explorer. Needlessly confusing,
bloated, slow...
Think about it ... MS hasn't done anything notably good or innovative
for years ... why should Office be any different.
Now that there are viable alternatives to their products, you watch and
see if their economic fortunes and deep pockets don't take the huge hit
they deserve.
Best thing they could do would be to get rid of raging bull Balmer.
db
mike wrote:
I know from an interview I heard with one of the developers on MS office
that almost all the features MS would get requests for were already in the
product. One of the reasons for developing the ribbon was to increase the
chances of users getting more out of office. Those here notwithstanding,
most reviews were positive towards the change. Change isn't always good,
but it isn't always bad either.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:35 PM, E. Riley Casey <rileyca...@espsound.com>wrote:
The demise of Appleworks is to me inexplicable. It's difficult to imagine
that even if the application required a complete rewrite to be an ongoing
product that it would have been significantly more costly or less profitable
than the resources that went into Pages and Numbers. I still use Appleworks
for most of my day to day productivity tasks on my current MacBook Pro -
seven computers and four operating systems after I first used the program.
I have discovered Bean
( www.bean-osx.com ) to be a handy word processor leveraging the text
handling tools in OS X.4. I use MS Office entirely as reader applications
to open .doc, .xls and the occasional and execrable Powerpoint document
sent to me by clients - never to create content. With the advent of the
.docx file format which can only be opened with OpenOffice on a Mac - not by
any Microsoft program - my motivation for spending a dime with Microsoft has
diminished to nil.
At 11:38 AM -0400 3/25/09, b_s-wilk wrote:
Apple has made the same kind of changes where their original software
worked just fine. Pages is not a good replacement for basic AppleWorks.
TextEdit is not longer a text editor; saving as *.txt isn't choice.
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Silver Spring MD
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301-608-0789 fx
301-440-2923 shoe phone
Entertainment Sound Production ( http://www.ESPsound.com )
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