For years now I’ve wanted to leave Microsoft Word–it’s the kludgiest app on my Mac that I use regularly, and it always feels like I’m using a badly callibrated bazooka to
shoot at flies. I’m really interested in Pages 2 for regular writing and Scrivener for prose.
So it was with particular interest that I read Steven Poole’s very well written farewell to Word. Nicely written piece that I agree with 110 percent. I remember Word 5.1a on my old Macintosh Centris 610. It really was a great word processor to use because it stayed out of the way. Word 6 was, by contrast, a terrible disaster that no-one at Microsoft apparently actually used, and it only got worse from there.
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