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Re: What Are the Main Problems You Have with MS Word?
Subject:Re: What Are the Main Problems You Have with MS Word? From:SteveFJong -at- aol -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 30 May 2002 07:17:06 EDT
Several people have optimistically said XML will solve all our problems.
Meanwhile, in a parallel thread, someone invoked the Figurehead as the thing
they like most about Word. That of course reminds us that the application
cannot be separated from the company that maintains it. (I'm sure if you try
to install a Windows PC without Word, the even-number digit keys won't work
or something 8^)
Anyway, given the history of the Figurehead, we should be running a pool as
to when exactly they he will solve all our problems with Visual XML. It will
embrace and extend the XML standard with a point-and-click interface larded
with wizards, and fabulous, must-have features; it will be free; and it will
add only 175Mb to every app that supports it (believe me, they'll all support
it). Soon we'll all have to buy new systems to handle the overhead, then IT
managers will demand that all XML generators be compliant, and eventually
only one vendor will have XML capability.
I mean, really--we ought to have learned our lesson by now 8^)
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