Evolve!
To be honest, I get my work done with a simple text editor and a console-based e-mail client. I only load OpenOffice.org when people e-mail me important Word or Excel documents that need my attention.
All the same, while I never need to use Microsoft Office, I think the whole “you’re a dinosaur for not paying us lots of money to upgrade your software” campaign insulting. Has Microsoft got nothing to offer its long-time users beyond bullying? For shame, Microsoft!
Seriously, if the dinosaur stuff is getting to you, give OpenOffice.org a try before you surrender to Microsoft’s extortion campaign.
Love,
-danny
P.S. If you would like to borrow my stolen clip-art for making your own guerrilla marketing statement, you are welcome to my image templates, my text templates, and of course OpenOffice.org has a variety of web buttons.
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hji
Heh, we are in the same camp. I use vim, although I use it on Windows most of the time.
It’s funny that Microsoft (although Microsoft is not alone in this regard) always bashes earlier versions of its products to encourage upgrade. The logic is that earlier version is so bad that you have to upgrade. The marketing people probably forgot who wrote those earlier versions in the first place:-)
Most WYSIWYG editors are poorly designed. They distract the average users from the tasks at hand, although I have to admit there is quite a learning curve for VIM for most people.
Next version of Office will be using XML file format, instead of the current proprietary format. That’s a move to the right direction.
Heard a lot of people mentioning mutt, but never got a chance to use it.
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