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>Microsoft Word was never designed to be an ideal tool for creative writing, programming, or any such thing. He pointed that out. And he pointed out that the
by asdasf 13y ago
>Microsoft Word was never designed to be an ideal tool for creative writing, programming, or any such thing.
He pointed that out. And he pointed out that the industry was still foisting it on him. That is why he wants it to die. This was the summary at the end of the article in fact.
- YeahKIA 13y agoCurious what kind of foisting. I'm sure people might have preferred things in word format. Its just a matter of convenience. But I doubt its foisted. I've seen PDF files to be as annoyingly common particularly in academia. I hate it but I get around by just saving my document as PDF and move on. He's just being overly dramatic.
- rbanffy 13y agoMost likely when he sends a plain text file to his editor, he gets back a .doc file with the revisions and annotations.
- bediger4000 13y agoI assure you that "Word" is foisted on people who otherwise wouldn't touch it. It's foisted in many, many ways, from project managers who ask for "a word version", to software process methodologies whose official templates are in "Word" to requirement tracking systems that demand "Word" versions of every single document, because the tracking system produces "Word" docs. I don't think most people distinguish "Word" docs from any printed doc, except those sophisticated enough to use "Excel" to produce columnar-format data ("Word" tables are hard to do and sucky looking).
- ShirtlessRod 13y agoThen shouldn't he be far more mad at his industry, not the tool?
- Sagat 13y agoWhy blame the people you know when you can blame a piece of software that can't fight back?
- PeterisP 13y agoIsn't that what he's doing? "X needs to die" quite clearly means "you people in industry need to stop using X", not "burn X at the stake".
- ShirtlessRod 13y agoI honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. I'll just assume you are and move on.