> 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 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.)