If you want to Save As to an RTF file, that's fine. I do it all the time. But unless you want to default to show All Files, opening an RTF file in Word is a two-step process, and if Wordpad/Write can't open a .DOC file, even with limited formatting, I need to fire up Word to either open the .DOC or make an RTF copy -- and if there are both .DOC and .RTF copies, things get out of synch.
Don't know about anyone else, but switching between writing files in Word and note files or quick lookups in Write is handy.
I've installed Open Office twice and both times deleted it. The first time it was too buggy, the second time, well... I've created a fleet of customized icons in Word 95, nearly all of which work in Word 97, and some work in Word 2003. One of my complaints about upgrading, is that why do _I_ have to change my workflow, when what I have works? It's the changes in OSes which drives some of the forced changes.
Is supporting old legacy code a pain in the butt? You bet. But that's what we pay MS the bucks for. To be grown up, suck it up and do the hard coding. Hell, I'm still using Norton Utilities 4.5 & Advanced Edition for DOS from 1987 in the MS-DOS command prompt in Win XP. I've found no good substitute for those functions. I make extensive use of DOS batch files, scripts to you modern kids, but haven't checked to see what works in Win 7 yet.
Am I a minority? You bet. But fail to support my legacy uses and you lose some of the reasons I still use Windows.
Turning back to the original post, LiveJournal's Release 88 has generated 20,000 user complaints, nearly all of which say Roll It Back. Software Fail is, well, Fail.
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Date: Friday, 23 December 2011 19:02 (UTC)Don't know about anyone else, but switching between writing files in Word and note files or quick lookups in Write is handy.
I've installed Open Office twice and both times deleted it. The first time it was too buggy, the second time, well... I've created a fleet of customized icons in Word 95, nearly all of which work in Word 97, and some work in Word 2003. One of my complaints about upgrading, is that why do _I_ have to change my workflow, when what I have works? It's the changes in OSes which drives some of the forced changes.
Is supporting old legacy code a pain in the butt? You bet. But that's what we pay MS the bucks for. To be grown up, suck it up and do the hard coding. Hell, I'm still using Norton Utilities 4.5 & Advanced Edition for DOS from 1987 in the MS-DOS command prompt in Win XP. I've found no good substitute for those functions. I make extensive use of DOS batch files, scripts to you modern kids, but haven't checked to see what works in Win 7 yet.
Am I a minority? You bet. But fail to support my legacy uses and you lose some of the reasons I still use Windows.
Turning back to the original post, LiveJournal's Release 88 has generated 20,000 user complaints, nearly all of which say Roll It Back. Software Fail is, well, Fail.
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