6 month ago
Linkorama : What Did Happen to UI Consistency? - The only thing "integrated" about Office is a brand
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philgyford : Zamzar - Free online file conversion - Convert a file to a different kind. Audio, video, text documents, archives, etc. Plus download YouTube etc videos in a different format. (via Cool Tools)
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9 month ago
deusx : Crazy Apple Rumors Site » Blog Archive » Child Discovered In Word Code. - "Sources were unable to say how he got in there or whose child he might be, but he apparently had been living in the code in a feral state for a number of years."
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11 month ago
Linkorama : R.I.P.: The Web 2.0 Office Suite - Ninety-four percent of U.S. consumers have never heard of Web-based productivity suite alternatives. A mere 0.5 percent have substituted Web-based productivity suites for desktop software such as Microsoft Office.
wearehugh : Microsoft Watch - Web Services & Browser - R.I.P.: The Web 2.0 Office Suite - nowhere to go but up! :)
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13 month ago
nelson : MSWord redaction - Amazing; an add-in to Microsoft Word to remove text
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14 month ago
Linkorama : Adobe acquires Ubiquity - A really nice online word processor replicant that can't make links
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15 month ago
deusx : Steven Poole – Goodbye, cruel Word - "I was still somehow brainwashed, though, as perhaps many people still are today, into believing that Word was the “serious” word-processor: the professional tool for anyone who did heavy lifting with language."
joshua : Steven Poole – Goodbye, cruel Word - nice rant on simplicity and task-appropriateness for tools
Rod Begbie : Steven Poole - Goodbye, cruel Word - "Many people agree that revision 5.1a, specifically, was the best version of Word that Microsoft has ever shipped, combining utility and minimalist elegance with reliability. Sadly for me ... I "upgraded" to Word 98, and somehow the magic was gone." [via] #
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21 month ago
Linkorama : Misunderstanding Disruption - The real technology disruption here is that Google Apps for Your Domain (and Google Docs, the free version) use HTML as their native format, not Microsoft's crufty legacy format, nor the equally crufty XML data-dump.
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31 month ago
Isofarro : Blogging from Word 2007 - Using Word 2007 as a blog client. Supports the Atom API. (via Tim Bray)
WillPate : Word 2007 to Support Bloggin - Finally! This will make blogging viable for millions of people who use Word exclusively to write and edit text.
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31 month ago
deusx : Word 2007 to feature built-in blogging - "If you've ever written a post in Word 2003 or before and then copied and pasted the text into your web browser you know what I'm talking about." I have no idea what he's talking about.
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32 month ago
deusx : davblog: Why I Don't Use Word - "over the months that I spent writing the book I went from being a Word fan to hating it with a passion."
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37 month ago
erikbenson : Pronoia is the suspicion that the universe is a conspiracy on your behalf - This word is suddenly in the zeitgeist.
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38 month ago
erikbenson : accismus: feigning disinterest in something while actually desiring it - I don't know how to pronounce it, but this word represents so much in us postmodern people.
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49 month ago
plasticbag : The seventy most beautiful words in the English Language - Includes: smile, gorgeous, enthusiasm, banana, paradox, galaxy, kangaroo, whoops and gazebo. Weirdly does not include: badger, potato, geranium. Stupid survey.
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49 month ago
plasticbag : Microsoft's new beta for search isn't in any way biased towards their products - I mean God knows there probably is only one web page on the entire internet that has "Word" on it - and it's not Merriam-Webster's dictionary at word.com! This is just dumb - people are not going to use and trust a search engine that so blatantly deforms
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