Re: A thought on Windows Experience

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Wol,

> imho [Word] STILL hasn't caught up with the dedicated word processing 
> programs for professionals (such as WordPerfect) which were around in the 80s 
> - thirty years ago!

Depends on your definition of “caught up”, I suppose.  ;)
In terms of the number of people who use it, there’s no competition: Word 
trampled WordPerfect years (maybe decades) ago.
In terms of the number of documents generated by it, same thing.
In terms of the likelihood of still being in use after the other application is 
discontinued, my money’s on Word.

We often forget that quality and usefulness are not synonymous — q.v. Beta (vs. 
VHS), WordPerfect (vs. Word), and, unfortunately, Lilypond (vs. all the other 
engraving apps).

Cheers,
Kieren.