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I've thought that Office Suite software has basically been a "baked" product since about 2007. I doubt 99% of MS Word users are going to need a feature that is
by dummy7953 11y ago
I've thought that Office Suite software has basically been a "baked" product since about 2007. I doubt 99% of MS Word users are going to need a feature that isn't already in the software. I mean, if that's what you're getting at.
Hell, you could almost make the case that the Windows operating system became a "baked" product when Windows XP came out and you no longer had to reboot your computer on an almost daily basis. I mean, that's why you'll hear howls and yelps from grandma and grandpa when some virus eventually comes to polish off Windows XP. Until then, you'll only get it from their cold, dead hands (sorry grandma).
But the concept of computing isn't going away for a long, long time. What's changing is the machinery being managed by code. First tablets and cell phones, and soon the Internet of Things (stupidest name evar). But even if we run out of wires and electricity, I suspect some day we'll be creating living things (tissues at first) that can perform a computation. So yeah, computerize ALL THE THINGS!
- stephengillie 11y ago> I doubt 99% of MS Word users are going to need a feature that isn't already in the software. This was literally the reason for the design change in 2007 - they abandoned the toolbar system for the ribbon system exactly because 95% of all feature requests were for features that were already included in the product. People just couldn't find these features. And so they reworked the UI, now users can find the features they want to use. And it generated so much bad publicity that they re-added the toolbar system to Office 2010.