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We ditched Office back in 2007 and haven't looked back. We use a mix of OpenOffice and Google Docs for business and the only time we ever have any trouble is wh
by iuguy 14y ago
We ditched Office back in 2007 and haven't looked back. We use a mix of OpenOffice and Google Docs for business and the only time we ever have any trouble is when someone sends a document that's really badly formatted.
I use Markdown myself but I don't know how many people at work do. I suspect some people are using it without being aware that it's markdown as my style is copied by other people looking for a clean way to present structure in text.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but there are different realities that people live in, and for the author his points (however strangely put) may be valid.
- dizzystar 14y agoHis points are fine for what they reflect, which is his own reality, but I don't think his points are a correct reflection of reality for many people, and the authoritative air rubs me the wrong way. We straddle a large spectrum of worlds here in America, which covers people who don't even have a computer at all (and yes they work in offices as well) to people who are early-adopters and techno-gurus. The latter people tend to bloviate about their bleeding-edge products and working tools as if the entire world does exactly what they do, and this seldom reflects reality. This self-centered view of the world seems to be the trend in tech writing these days. I just wonder if tech writers ever have to pick up the phone and talk to anyone outside of their narrow circles. While I understand he is writing about his own reality, his extrapolation to the rest of the world is [x].