--- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No one has yet to name any service or program that > Microsoft offers that > > someone else does not do better. Someone > mentioned Developer's Studio. > > For commercial compilers I preferred Watcom's IDE, > another ruined > > Microsoft competitor. Soon the KDE stuff will be > better. > > I am going to catch a lot of flack for this, but I'm > a sucker so here goes > anyway: Microsoft Office, and in particular, Word. > > Let's use the definition that to be "better" (a > subjective term) the program > has to offer the most useful features and successful > implementation of those > features. > > I use a word processor much more than the average > Joe User because of my > career. While I'm no expert, I do think that I have > more "real" experience > in word processors than most, and in my experience > there is no open source > word processor that can compete feature-by-feature > with Word. A great > example of a feature that Word does better than most > is spelling and grammar > checking. > > Don't get me wrong now. I like OpenOffice and even > StarOffice. They're > great. But pound for pound Word is a more powerful > and comprehensive word > processor, and it can help you work faster if you > find yourself in it often > enough. > > On the purely commercial front, Word Perfect Office > Standard gives Microsoft > Office Standard a run for its money. > >
I'm with you Dustin. MS did not get where they are by being slouches. I think "better" has to include cross-compatibility too. You can say it is all "part of the evil plan," but you can open darn near any other platform in a MS product. They did that in response to requests from customers as much as in response to competition. I believe in Capitalism. I also believe there are too many people with disparate needs for any one, two, or three companies to be all things to all people. The best dogs always get the most game at the end of the season. ===== Warmest Regards, Doug Riddle Capital punishment makes the state a murderer. On the other hand, life in prison makes the state a gay dungeon master. -- Rev. Jesse Jackson "Decisions, Decisions, Decisions..." - Doug Riddle __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/
