It's not the Bill-Gates-is-evil argument I was referring to - simply that the Microsoft programs I use (Word, Outlook Express, etc) don't work as well as their (generally more basic) equivalents I used on the Mac. I used to use Clarisworks, for instance, and the word-processing bit of that is straightforward, easy to use, and doesn't continually do things to your formatting without telling you. Word will revert to its default font and point size in mid document - or to a font and point size you were using earlier - and add weird bits of formatting which make it impossible to get your document the way you want it, unless you spend ages learning how to stop it. Some of this may be useful at times (anticipating what you want to do), but generally I find it infuriating, especially when it makes changes which appear to be completely random. It's just bad design. Ditto for Outlook Express - the new version actually has fewer useful features than the previous one! You can't change the font colour any more, and more seriously, you can't send blind copies any more.
I would begrudge MS's unpleasant and illegal business practices a bit less if their software actually was the best available, but it's just not. It just happens to be, too often, all that's available.
Sorry to rant... but sitting at the computer right now only serves to remind me how much I miss using a Mac!
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Date: April 21st, 2002 03:40 pm (UTC)From:I would begrudge MS's unpleasant and illegal business practices a bit less if their software actually was the best available, but it's just not. It just happens to be, too often, all that's available.
Sorry to rant... but sitting at the computer right now only serves to remind me how much I miss using a Mac!