I think this is spot-on. From a student's perspective, taking notes in class in Word is the de facto standard at this point. The outlining mode is intuitive a

I think this is spot-on. From a student's perspective, taking notes in class in Word is the de facto standard at this point. The outlining mode is intuitive and efficient. Now let's say we were to replace this with MediaWiki. When I tab and shift-tab it won't indent and un-indent properly. While I'm sure there is Wiki markup to do outlining, there is no way you'd be able to do it fast enough in class while you're trying to get down everything the professor says. The author, as parent points out, makes the common mistake of assuming what is true for one in a group is true for the entire group.