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I just love quips. I'm not sure you're old enough to have restled with the first Apple word processor on my Atari 1200, Wordstar, Multimate, Wordperfect, Lotus 123 (and the abominable Allways, first attempt at GUI environment). Trying to work with all of them in Atari, DOS, Win3.0, or even 3.1 was a joke, the learning curve was steep, and trying to teach it to your employees was too daunting to those of us who work for a living, and had no one to call upon. When MS Word 6.0 hit the streets, I was in heaven, and jumped to Excel and MS Office in a heartbeat, never looking back. Now I can show my employees how to fire it up, and let them take it from there, no arcane languages, bizarre menus, or F keys to memorize. And you tell me that people haven't wanted the "Office Suite" approach? You're out to lunch, or just too young to remember the "bad old days". From one who has been in the trenches of PC's since TI and Apple II (early 70's). No offense taken or given, but one line quips are a cheap shot not worthy of a great service like Silicon Investor. |
