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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (61780)	10/20/2001 4:59:52 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Charles - maybe your word processing has not changed much in the last decade... the rest of us have moved quite a ways. Under Windows 3.1 or 3.11 you had WYSIWYG but the print drivers were "external" and so the display was not necessarily what you would print - you had to use a klunky "print preview" to get an accurate representation, and if you didn't like the layout, you had to guess at what the changes would do. With trutype and print drivers as intelligent objects in Win95, that problem was solved - the display reflected what would print, and the display changed on the fly if you changed printer selections. The overall linkage between media and multimedia sources and intended output had steadily improved, as has the ability to include complex compound objects. The Office suite has comprehended the use of "documents" as a lot more than hard copy - they are now a base format for information exchange, often real-time. For example, I can construct a word document which is designed to present an ad campaign, and therefore includes video clips, sound bites, live links to external web sites, and so on, and I can share that document in a netmeeting session and pass control around to various participants for comments, changes and approvals and watch the process as it happens. And at the end of the sessions, I have a record of the original document, every change that was made, who made it, who approved it, and when. Of course, I still have a 6502-based VIC-20 single board computer, where I can pound out a mean newsletter in wordstar and print it on my original model laserjet, as long as I have the font cartridges installed and can remember all the escape codes to insert in the text <G>. So I guess if all I needed to do was do the things I was doing 20 years ago, I would have wasted all the money I spent on everything since 8-bit microprocessors...

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (61780)	10/21/2001 2:35:13 PM
From: David Howe	Respond to of 74651

<< Word processing hasn't changed much in the last decade. >> Sure it has. If you know how to use the many features of Office 2000 and Office XP you know how much easier everything is these days. It only take a few minutes to figure out the auto-formatting features and once you have, all sorts of documents become much easier to create.

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (61780)	10/25/2001 2:45:52 PM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

On the Mac using Microsoft products it first got worse from Word 4 through 5 to 6 and then got better through 98 and 2000. I jumped straight from 5 to 98. Still didn't upgrade to 2000. 2000 pastes images of charts more reliably than 98 but as 98 reads 2000 files I didn't bother yet. But Word 4 was an incredibly elegant program and fitted on a single floppy.... BTW this is a 1995 Mac 7100 I'm writing this on. Upgraded of course. Just replaced the mouse this week after the old one died... David