Microsoft tipping
Leon Goldstein
metapsych
Mon May 17 11:57:33 PDT 2004
Alan Jackson wrote inter alia:
>Maybe I'm odd, but I don't find Windows easy to use. I find it obscure,
>confusing, inconsistent, and frustrating. And my 80 year-old father
>feels the same way about it. Usable software lets you guess at the behavior
>and usually get it right. Ever tried to cut and paste between various
>Office products? It doesn't work. You have to make a special incantation
>to get it to work correctly, and even then, some things simply don't work.
>
I am equally odd. One reason I have been leaping through hoops for the
last 4 years
in order to keep WordPerfect 8/Linux functional is because I can sit
down and type out
a document and print it without fighting the user interface.
--
Leon A. Goldstein
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