RE: What Are the Main Problems You Have with MS Word?

Subject: RE: What Are the Main Problems You Have with MS Word?
From: David Farbey <David -dot- Farbey -at- lazysoft -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 15:03:41 +0100


Save this message, Steve, and in a few years time you'll be able to say "I
told you so"!!

David Farbey
mailto:david -dot- farbey -at- lazysoft -dot- com
Technical Writer
Lazy Software Ltd., UK
http://www.lazysoft.com
Phone: 01628-642314

-----Original Message-----
Steve Jong wrote:

>Several people have optimistically said XML will solve all our problems.
>Meanwhile, in a parallel thread, someone invoked the Figurehead as the
thing
>they like most about Word. That of course reminds us that the application
>cannot be separated from the company that maintains it. (I'm sure if you
try
>to install a Windows PC without Word, the even-number digit keys won't work

>or something 8^)
>
>Anyway, given the history of the Figurehead, we should be running a pool as

>to when exactly they he will solve all our problems with Visual XML. It
will
>embrace and extend the XML standard with a point-and-click interface larded

>with wizards, and fabulous, must-have features; it will be free; and it
will
>add only 175Mb to every app that supports it (believe me, they'll all
support
>it). Soon we'll all have to buy new systems to handle the overhead, then IT

>managers will demand that all XML generators be compliant, and eventually
>only one vendor will have XML capability.
>
>I mean, really--we ought to have learned our lesson by now 8^)
>
> -- Steve

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