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Companies Using MS Word "Out of Habit," Says Forrester
An anonymous reader writes "A Forrester Research report has found that companies use Microsoft Word for word processing out of habit rather than necessity and are beginning to consider other alternatives as the Web has changed the way people create and share documents. The report, "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: The Microsoft Word Love Story," by analyst Sheri McLeish, suggests that businesses may still be using Word because it is familiar to users or because they have a legacy investment in the application, not because it is the best option."
Microsoft surely knows that some other options are creeping slowly into the view of even the most Word-centric users, though. User I dream about smoking writes "Microsoft is testing new capabilities for Office Live Workspace, its online adjunct to Microsoft Office, that will make it a closer rival to online application suites such as Google Docs. Microsoft will start beta testing an updated version of Live Workspace later this year that allows users to create and edit new documents online."
Dear Slashdot,
My name is Mike and I am serving the first week of a 10 year sentence in Federal Prison for severe SEC violations. I am very scared and I didn't know what else to do. I guess I have 5 good minutes to type this cry out for help until Tyrone and the crew come for me and give me what they call "Mandatory Showertime". I mean I have been exposed to more male cock in the first 3 days here than I have ever cared to know in my first 30 years of life. I guess it was some sort of sick joke that they gave me a big black cell mate named Tyrese who also part of Tyrones crew. As such he has first dibs on me or as he says "first dick in me". The nigger has beaten me senseless the first day here as he seems to get a real kick out of it and has repeatedly raped me and that's not even the worst of it. I never knew a man could cum 7 times in a row and with that I hadn't been able to get any sleep in the past day or so. The first time I met Tyrone was at our first shower time. Tyrese had "persuaded" me to go into the shower room and that's when I met the whole crew. There must have been 19 prison niggers in there and when the guards pulled out, thats when I was given a gangraping that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Could you imagine 19 giant black cocks repeatedly ass raping and mouth fucking you? I think not, and don't think these guys went in one at a time. I swear it must have been 3 in my ass and 2 in my mouth at one point. I was in tears hearing Tyrone laughing at me saying "This be your life now cracka, you our bitch now". I still have the sharpie mark on my ass that says "Tyrone's ho". Uh oh it looks like it's mandatory shower time again. I think I am going to hang myself when Tyrese is out raping another white prisoner. Thanks for listening.
Yes. Ubuntu is the ONE true free OS. The one open source OS "TO RULE THEM ALL!!"
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Get out much? (come on, laugh
Attention Java haters
What is the deal with you smug sons of bitches hating on the mere mention of Java? Did Java rape your parents when you were a kid? Everytime I hear a story or a comment about Java, it always involves some elitist asshole who probably codes in perl because they can't hack it in C++, complaining about how "Java is slow lolz". If any one of you have actually played around with Java seriously than you would see that Java isn't slow and it is used for serious programming. Not everyone wants to write applications, especially business grade stuff, and have to spend more time and more code, trying to get it to work on many specific platforms.
I'll be the first to admit that Java doesn't belong anywhere but my point is, best tool for the job. Now a lot of you will say the same thing but swear on the K&R handbook that C is the only language you will ever need. Java is great for writing servers and, when done right, doing pretty nice GUI applications. It is probably too high level to do any real serious 3D games at the current state of hardware but I can't honestly say one way or another. Java also comes with a rich set of APIs for you to do anything, and that's not including the ones provided by Sun.
On an additional sidenote, I also love how Mr Taco will insert a little snide remark about Java being slow and shitty while he allows his Slashdot website to corrode from the inside out with this hideous javascript. I think Mr Taco needs to fire CowboyNeal instead of expressing his closeted feelings for him through the slashdot polls. The website has become a mess and is almost as shitty as Digg with the needless web 2.0. Maybe this is why more and more trolls are coming out of the woodwork.
In short, Java is an excellent language and has many uses and while some of you decide to insanely insist that x86 Asm language is the only way to write full featured GUIs, the rest of the world will pull decent salaries writing using the best tool for the job.
Its really intuitive!!
:wq and it saves your Word Document!!
To type just press a, and away you go. To save, all you need to do is press ESC, and
Ignore that damned OpenOffice. You need CTRL codes for that one.
<flame on>
What possessed you to replace Times with Verdana?
Did you also drive your son to school in a grilled cheese sandwich? and wear a herd of antelope on your head as a hat? It sounds like you had a (ignorant) axe to grind and your son was the collateral damage.