Ian Lynch wrote:
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 00:04 -0500, mark wrote:
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Windows' easy-to-use interface,
A second-generation copy.
Office's powerful business apps,
Fundamentally designed in the 80's. Word for DOS and Multiplan were
genuinely innovative (though, as I understand it, Word was developed
Bullshit. As I've said before, once WordPerfect hit 5.0, and became
truly *usable*, it was (and is, IMO) far superior to Word, if for *no*
other reason than F3 (reveal *ALL* codes, not just what Word feels like
revealing), so you can *always* beat it into submission.
Impression Publisher was far better and its DDF was somewhat like ODF.
Yes, but we're talking about word processors. We are not talking about a
product intended for someone publishing a magazine, that will be sent
for lithographing. For something that's going to be on the Web, or sent
to the local or network printer, any word processor ten years ago was
far more than enough.
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mark
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