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As applications move to the web, and smaller organizations start producing low-cost web application alternatives, large patent holders (including MS, Apple, and patent squatters) will be able to strong-arm the little innovators and shut them down based on obscure patent laws.
Software patents are a stupid and shameful business.
Suck it, Microsoft.
I figure the appeals process will keep this from becoming a reality.
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
YOU HEAR THAT? GET OFF MY LAWN YOU WHIPPERSNAPPERS!
I am suprised they haven't settled yet though, I guess ici is just biding its time.
I am suprised they haven't settled yet though, I guess i4 is just biding its time.
I'd be surprised if this drags out long. Office makes $200 million a week, and no one will buy it without Word. Expect a settlement any day now.
I've spent considerable time trying to hunt down and kill all the default autocorrection "features" in newer versions of Word, only to have them STILL move text around, overselect, etc. Then when I actually want to invoke spell check, it can take another half-hour just to figure out how to enable it.
Any finger in the eye of Microsoft Office just makes me giggle maniacally.
Software hurt the little shops. This is a rare case where the tables are turned.
Later versions are still kind of wonky, but nowhere near as horrible as 97.
The "collaborative document" concept is really just a way to try to counter shitty management. Think about it: how often to you & 4 other people in 4 other time zones work on the same document at the same time? We all know how group projects like that turn out - the one smart & dedicated chick does all the work and a few others tag their name to it afterwards. The manager then takes all the credit for the "team" effort. MS is the world capital of Ineffective Middle Management Suck-Ups.
Rather than design a new door that can allow 8 bratty kids to enter all at once, how about getting off your ass and get the fucking kids to line up and enter in an orderly fashion?
At least one of these people MUST, by law, be unaware of the existence of the Tab or Enter keys, and just hold the space bar down until reaching the point in the document they wish to deface further.
All of these people must use the "track changes" feature, so that the "show changes on" setting results in a document that is completely unintelligible and takes up 30 pages for every one that will eventually print.
And when they are finished, they come and get me to fix it.
Oh, and the "track changes" thing can't really be disabled, just the visual evidence of it. Look at a Word doc in a raw text editor, and you'll think you're looking at whale intestines.
Open Office is the one and only tool you'll ever need for word processing n stuff. I think Microsoft Access still has some features that Open Office doesn't, but if all you're doing is a term paper, or a blog post, or...I dunno what the fuck do you ever use word for anyway? Open Office can do it, and it's free, Microsoft should find a new source of income and bundle the software already. Considering the absurd amounts of new bugs their current versions they should be paying me to test it.
Also, Word has been largely unchanged since the early 90's, making millions off that turns out to be a crime, who would have thought? :p