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On further consideration, though it's common to talk about an upgrade treadmill or "what Andy giveth, Bill taketh away", software actually does get better over
by mwcampbell 10y ago
On further consideration, though it's common to talk about an upgrade treadmill or "what Andy giveth, Bill taketh away", software actually does get better over time, and we shouldn't look back so fondly on older versions. To pick just one example, software in the 90s didn't have inline spell checking as you type, a feature that came in handy for me just a few minutes ago while editing my other comment. Still, the question remains: why doesn't everything feel instant on our current systems, and what do we do about it?
- MagnumOpus 10y ago> To pick just one example, software in the 90s didn't have inline spell checking To pick on your example - it is interesting that you have to go back 20 years to find a feature beneficial for the everyman, and that you are still wrong: Just about every word processor starting from MS Word 95 came with inline spell checkers. (And indeed I prefer the snappiness and identical feature set of my copy of Office 2003 to the ribbon-laden gigabyte-guzzling mostrosities of Office 201x, just as I prefer a 15-year-old Winamp to the latest Itunes player.)
- klibertp 10y ago> To pick just one example, software in the 90s didn't have inline spell checking as you type What? Which 90s exactly did you live through? Because I seem to remember MS Word 6.0 having not just spell checking as you type, but also the dreaded autocorrection feature. That was in 1993 according to Wikipedia.