On 4 March 2011 10:43, Tony Bowden <[email protected]> wrote: > > ISTR reading a story once (many years ago now), when Microsoft were > still just teetering on the brink of market dominance in the > word-processing field, that one of their new releases of Word caused > pretty much every lawyer using it to revert back to WordPerfect > because of this very reason. As a result the Product Manager spent > almost the entire next year travelling around different law firms to > see first hand exactly how they used word-processors, what their needs > were etc., and it paid off in the next release which was exactly what > they all needed. > > I'm perfectly willing to believe that they've managed to lose that all > again along the way somewhere though (or that the story was made-up PR > bollocks! :) >
It could be true. As a habitual resister of the "evil empire" (surely now Apple - but that's another discussion) I mostly use openoffice, which is generally a poorer knock-off, rather than an innovative design of its own, but I have had some experience of word over the years and not been impressed by its ability to do the job "right", but as far as I know nothing else does it. Various people have promised tools to do the job and one may be along any moment now. -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
