Posted on 03/16/2023 4:00:30 PM PDT by Callahan
Do. Not. Want.
Bring back Windows 7.
Good grief!
What is that vile stench?
Karl Marx wrote those very words. Not that he'd know anything about work. And it didn't turn out quite like that anyway.
Clippy ROCKS!
Great! I hope it works for you. the times I’ve emailed them with questions they’ve been very responsive.
I’m eager to get a new system. The one I have now I got in January 2018, refurbished, through Amazon. A Dell laptop. Knock wood, but it has been, and is, excellent. But I know it won’t last forever. I prefer a desktop for home.
Re: Copilot
Wow - great marketing name...
The person who thought that up deserves a huge bonus!
GIGO. No programming can outdo that.
Microsoft continues to upyours their customers.
I miss WordPerfect.
My copy of Office is the 2003 Professional Edition. AFAIK, the last release before Microsloth permanently stained the work world with The Ribbon. Never have found a good reason to upgrade. Everything I want to do can be done with 2003.
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Sounds like what the hippies said about acid.
I gave up on word processors back in the mid-eighties. Vendors change file formats and your doc is scrambled, hence worthless. Microsoft is really bad about this. They’re a software house and need to keep you buying the upgrades. I understand their model, just don’t have to use it.
Started doing ASCII (text) files. When I retired I had 35-year-old files/documents/reports that were still readable and useable. Many of the systems concerned were still on-line, and we had transitioned from a VAX cluster to DOS to Windows. If I had used so-called “word processors” most of those files would have been long dead.
What I used:
“edit” on the VAX (I think - been a while)
“Qedit” and Borland “Turbo C” on DOS. Qedit is still alive. Turbo C is still available online but no support. I used the Turbo C to generate graphics if necessary, among other things
“notepad” on windows.
“vi” on unix.
“TeX” and “LaTeX” on unix. PDF files can be generated with
this pair.
“GNUPlot” on unix.
“unix” is defined as Linux or FreeBSD. Both systems will run what I’ve listed above.
I use FreeBSD as it is more centrally-controlled and stable.
Linux is reliable but is more of a “Wild West” environment, although some distributions are just as stable.
I’m just a conservative kind of fella.
Office is used by business to spy on the employees.
You lost me at Microsoft.
Bring back XP.
“I miss WordPerfect.”
Me, too. Every single day. When we were forced into Word with “bundles” on new PCs, businesses went to the “free” sh!t. THAT was when I knew Bill Gates was the anti-Christ. And I said so often — decades before Covid.
I do have WordPerfect 6 on my system, but it’s Windows based. The DOS version had way better features.
Sprint by Borland was very powerful, too.
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