MS Word <chuckle>
First, Kastelco mentioned Word. I said nothing of it. I use Excel every single day and have been for well over 10 years (not to mention Quattro Pro before that and of course the Gold Standard of its day - VisiCalc on the Apple ][+ in 82 and beyond).
Second, I use to work in a technical role with my computer company - the general norm in the computer industry I was involved with you either were more "Technical" and dealt with hardware and O/S, or more "non-technical" - and dealt with programming. I was involved with both and decided to stick with Programming - two fold reasons: (A) I can write code at home but have to be onsite at some customer in Shithole Ontario trying to recover botched tape backups until midnight and look forward to a 2 hour drive back home and paid no different for the hassle. (B) The techies are assholes generally - think they know everything and so full of themselves it makes me laugh each and everytime they fall down and sit there telling the customer stories. I always say look at them talk.. snowing in July
Anyahoo back to my story - I was involved in the technical side - went onsite to install hardware (drives) or updated the O/S etc. I remember the old Unix/Xenix Word Perfect. It started up with a Blue screen and a cursor at the top left. How bloody friendly is that? Since that day I have never cared for that product. I use Word today - ahhh, I typed stuff up for my wife when she was at UofT, and the odd note for my son for school. I am no expert in processors and Excel was a no brainer so it was logical. That is one of Corel's downfalls. Relying so heavily on the WP and missing the tie in with the spreadsheet - and competing with MS.
Anyahoo, back to the browsers. Like anything, using the "standard" is the easy way - but not often the best. In this case, I find Mozilla just so feature rich, that it wins over IE handsdown. (Actually a bit better than Netscape which is the same code since NS doesn't update theirs as often as Mozilla).
SP2 from MS is out late summer supposedly - and apparently IE will have the popup blocker finally. Once that is released - I will review again.
No gun to my head and will use the best. Mozilla is open source and great. I have tried several times to use Open Office. Yeah it probably is ok for free, but I am not sold. So Excel (office) it is. For email today I am using the Bat! even though I have Outlook.
SoB
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Dr. Alexander Elder on using stops.
