On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:06 -0500, Timothy Miller wrote:

> Some of us don't want to pay outrageous sums of money to Microsoft for
> the privilege of being accused of piracy by WGA.

Neither do I.

>   I think I'll stick with GNU/Linux and OpenOffice.

Personally, I use plain UTF-8 text for most things and LaTeX for the
rest.  I only use OpenOffice as a viewer.

I am just saying that there are some very real usability improvements in
the new Word.  It would be useful to study them and learn from them. 

Moreover, they will have the consequence that the number of new LaTeX
users will decline drastically because Word 2007 will give them the
things that only LaTeX used to be able to deliver.  Word 2007 will do it
while looking nice and without their having to go to school first to
operate it, which is what LaTeX feels like to most people.

Anybody who is at all serious about usability should take a look at the
whole Office 2007, especially Word and Excel.

-Peter

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