Re: Re: Don't waste your money!
Originally posted by SiliconAddict
<Sarcasm>Thanks but I want to be compatible with the rest of the market.</Sarcasm>
Uhm... that isn't sarcasm. Maybe fecetiousness, but not sarcasm - unless you really don't want to be compatible.
Until a viable solution shows up MS office is the product I will continue to use. Like most users in the world I'm not on a holy crusade to rid myself of Microsoft even if that means chopping off our productivity and gouging out our compatibility.
Maybe not, but you do realize MS is on a holy crusade to rid the world of any and all competition. Not everyone's needs are the same as yours. In fact, most people don't even use 5% of Office's features. Other people can get by perfectly well with AppleWorks (I do). Some people here are criticizing AppleWorks just because it is old - I don't see you defending AppleWorks for such a silly reason to criticize.
Huh.....Panther 10.3.1.......Panther 10.3.2 within 4-5 months of of release.
Enough said K?
Are you actually comparing the few bugs to the tens of thousands of Office bugs?
I'm sick of people thinking Apple can do no wrong. BS.
Come on now - Apple's biggest critics are often their own customers.
No company is perfect. Neither is MS (Understatement.) But dang it Windows 2000 is a fair OS out of the Box. XP is becoming better with each update.
Let me know when it gets to "good". MS still has shown that they don't understand user interfaces. They just keep plopping down UI elements haphazardly with no cohesion or consistency at all. Windows is a pain to use when I am forced to do it at work every day. I see so many things that could have been done better that it's not funny. I really should make a list.
(How many updates occurred on Jaguar?) Word 2000, XP and 2003 are good products.
Is that why Word 2K and XP crashed on me 8 times in a few hours while trying to edit a 700 page document? Word can't cut it. Word is an ok product - not good. Why does Word make up styles when pasting text from another doc? I explicitly set it to use existing styles, but apparently Word thinks it knows better. Why does Word insist on selecting the space after a word when I select it? I have "smart" cut and paste turned off. Again, this is an example of MS not doing interface testing.
Like it or not MS can put a decent piece of software out of their butt when they REALLY try.
Maybe "decent". Not good. Excel is their best product, IMHO. It still has room for improvement.
I'm sick of this Jihad again Microsoft. Better to stab yourself to death then purchase a Microsoft product. Or maybe just try it for ONCE. If you've never used a current version of MS office you don't know what the heck you are talking about and thus should shut up.
What was a crappy version of Mac OS?
Word 5.1 was a great word processor. MS went down hill from there. Jihad against MS? You don't seem to understand the MS is out to control everything in the computer industry, and then the media industry. If you want to talk about Jihads, talk about MS. They were convicted of antitrust actions. Remember? Their settlements were nothing more than slaps on the wrists, but they were still guilty. Why should I support a corporation that commits such felonies?
You dont even contemplate Microsoft because that idea that they are evil is so engrained.
Hmmm... I wonder where people get that idea?
Id wager that youve never used a current MS product,
Every day.
never talked to a person that worked at MS,
I had a Business Ethics professor who used to work at MS. She quit her job there because she was appalled at the practices they had there.