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 <[email protected]>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. >> > > > -- > E. Riley Casey > Silver Spring MD > 301-608-2180 ph > 301-608-0789 fx > 301-440-2923 shoe phone > Entertainment Sound Production ( http://www.ESPsound.com ) > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
