Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:58:53 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: "gt-pfrc at ml.gt.org" <gt-pfrc at ml.gt.org>,
 WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
 WSFA Official List <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>, bsfsgeneral at bsfs.org
Subject: [WSFA] Death to Word
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Excerpt:
It took years for me to get to this point. I came of age with Word. It's
the program I used to write my college papers, overcoming old-fashioned
page counts with its magical font-switching technology: Times, tightly
justified, if the writing was running too long; airily monospaced
Courier if things were too short. In those days, Word was an obedient
and resourceful servant.

Today, it's become an overbearing boss, one who specializes in
make-work. Part of this is Microsoft's more-is-more approach to adding
capabilities, and leaving all of them in the "on" position. Around the
first time Clippy launched himself, uninvited, between me and something
I was trying to write, I found myself wishing Word had a simple,
built-in button for "cut it out and never again do that thing you just
did." It's possible that the current version of Word does have one; I
have no idea where among the layers of menus and toolbars it might be.
All I really know how to do up there anymore is to go in and disable
AutoCorrect, so that the program will type what I've typed, rather than
what some software engineer thinks it should think I'm trying to type.
--- end excerpt ---

<http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/04/microsoft_word_is_cumbersome_inefficient_and_obsolete_it_s_time_for_it_to_die_.single.html>

         mark
--
Today's politicians know what to do when it hits the fan.  They
redesignate it a Rotary Waste Impeller. And blame the R\e\d\s\
\H\i\p\p\i\e\s\ \O\t\h\e\r\ \S\i\d\e\ \o\f\ \t\h\e\ \A\i\s\l\e\
terrorists if there are any complaints. - Stickmaker