http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2006/03/14/less-software-please/ The personal web site of Brendon J. Wilson, a software developer, technologist, and entrepreneur living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:17:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2006/03/14/less-software-please/#comment-1028 William Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:28:34 +0000 http://www.brendonwilson.com/?p=288#comment-1028 The actual problem lies with Microsoft. Put succinctly it is that the people who work there developing these "helpful" features are all idiots. They consistently manage to make their "intuitive" system work exactly the opposite way that the intuition of a normal, intelligent person would expect it to. Either that or their software simply tries to "help" when no help is required. You have mentioned a couple of alternatives which may or may not become widely available. I already use an alternative word processor which is vastly superios to Word. You may have heard of it - it is called Word Perfect. The actual problem lies with Microsoft. Put succinctly it is that the people who work there developing these “helpful” features are all idiots. They consistently manage to make their “intuitive” system work exactly the opposite way that the intuition of a normal, intelligent person would expect it to. Either that or their software simply tries to “help” when no help is required. You have mentioned a couple of alternatives which may or may not become widely available. I already use an alternative word processor which is vastly superios to Word. You may have heard of it - it is called Word Perfect.

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