Microsoft Word: A Defence - Here is why Word is still the word

 

Some of Microsoft Word 's features are engraved in stone.

Last week, a column we ran calling for Death to Microsoft Word provoked a torrent of debate. In response, George Skarbek argues the seminal word processing program's powerful legacy will endure.
Recent calls for people to give up on Word as a relic and obsolete software tool are a little premature, given the program's usefulness and its ubiquitous presence in the corporate world and in education.
It is true, as claimed in Death to Microsoft Word, that old Clippy was irritating, that Word is bloated and can add the superscript "th" to ordinal numbers. But the claims are trivial.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/here-is-why-word-is-still-the-word-20120416-1x2m7.html#ixzz1sEhq337v

George Skarbek

April 16, 2012 - 4:22PM