Where's The Feedback That Started The Stuff Below?! - AikiDavid
What on Earth started your anti-Macintosh/Apple Inc. rant??
Office is one of the most horrible creations ever made, and you go off on how Apple & Steve Jobs are just shining us stupid consumers off by slight of hand and fooling us with gimmicks??
I use Office and both Macs & PC's also, and I know why PC's are called PC's - because they are pieces of crap! To me Office is an excellent example of the arrogant attitude of the people in Microsoft, who think they know better than anyone else what works & how to do things. For example, when I write an email, and want to shorten the line I'm writing to less length than the default, I hit return, then after typing one word on the next line, it automatically capitalized it. This is insane!! It reads a carrage return as if it were a new sentence. They should have had the common sense to realize if you haven't finished the sentence yet, you don't want the word capitalized. I could give dozens more examples, and go on about how you go to look into preferences and settings and they have maybe 300 different settings, most of which have names that are so obscure you have no idea what they really do, so you can't easily change the settings. My rant against Microsoft is based on not only years of dealing with their shoddy products, but also on my knowledge of several very promising software products developed by brilliant people in the late 1980's and the 1990's. These people had great ideas which still haven't been developed because when they announced them, MS announced they would produce something similar, so nobody bought the products, wanting to wait for the MS version. Then MS, maybe a year later, abandoned the idea, and by then the companies had gone bankrupt due to lack of sales, due to Microsoft's lies about how they would produce a similar product. Their meanness caused lots of grief to good people. With that to compare to Apple, how can you say such negative things about Apple? Especially now, when they have iWork '08 which has great software, and even an excellent competitor (finally) for MS Excel.
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Where's The Feedback That Started The Stuff Below?! - AikiDavid
What on Earth started your anti-Macintosh/Apple Inc. rant??Office is one of the most horrible creations ever made, and you go off on how Apple & Steve Jobs are just shining us stupid consumers off by slight of hand and fooling us with gimmicks??
I use Office and both Macs & PC's also, and I know why PC's are called PC's - because they are pieces of crap! To me Office is an excellent example of the arrogant attitude of the people in Microsoft, who think they know better than anyone else what works & how to do things. For example, when I write an email, and want to shorten the line I'm writing to less length than the default, I hit return, then after typing one word on the next line, it automatically capitalized it. This is insane!! It reads a carrage return as if it were a new sentence. They should have had the common sense to realize if you haven't finished the sentence yet, you don't want the word capitalized. I could give dozens more examples, and go on about how you go to look into preferences and settings and they have maybe 300 different settings, most of which have names that are so obscure you have no idea what they really do, so you can't easily change the settings. My rant against Microsoft is based on not only years of dealing with their shoddy products, but also on my knowledge of several very promising software products developed by brilliant people in the late 1980's and the 1990's. These people had great ideas which still haven't been developed because when they announced them, MS announced they would produce something similar, so nobody bought the products, wanting to wait for the MS version. Then MS, maybe a year later, abandoned the idea, and by then the companies had gone bankrupt due to lack of sales, due to Microsoft's lies about how they would produce a similar product. Their meanness caused lots of grief to good people. With that to compare to Apple, how can you say such negative things about Apple? Especially now, when they have iWork '08 which has great software, and even an excellent competitor (finally) for MS Excel.
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