State level judges should not have this much power to effect global companies. Decisions like this should only be enforceable at a supreme court level.
I mean really. We can get a page telling us the site doesn't exist, or we can be re-directed to a search engine which can help us find what we were looking for.
Yeah it helps pimp Microsoft, but I figure if you are using their browser, it is fair game.
I used OpenOffice for 7 years of college and had zero issues, and probably about 75% of submission had to be in electronic form. What do you use Word for that you can't use Wordpad.exe for? Why can't you do the formatting in Mediawiki and then export to PDF?
On my school campus
Ok, it's pretty easy to see why you don't understand why email is still (unfortunately) relevant, but give it a couple years in a corporate or medium business; none of the services you mention have even half the features of email.
Word is still instruemental
Oh if only you had used Word (or Firefox, or OpenOffice) to compose this message it would have been spell checked!
I actually was using FF, but was in a hurry.
I think you misread what I was saying. I still think Email is extremely important, I was saying based on his horrible logic that it wasn't.
Wordpad doesn't do spell check, its formatting is more manual and has far fewer options. It is by no means an acceptable substitute to Word.
Open Office is great for a free program, but it is not nearly as powerful as Word, nor does it offer the nice UI that Word does.
Some of us actually do more than just email short statements to friends these days. In fact, I suspect that this user might think email is on its way out, since according to this same logicl, email doesn't do anything more than a blog, twitter, chatting, or Facebook can't do.
On my school campus, we don't always have to print. However, when we don't, we still write/prepare the documents in word, and then attach them to an email, or print them as a PDF. Either way, Word is still instruemental in the writing, formatting, reviewing, and etc, of that document.
There is no acceptable alternative to Word. Open Office Word is ok at best. Google docs is ok, but it is web based. Until someone attempts to take on the almighty Word (highly unlikely due to its universal use across both PC and Mac platforms) - then Word is here to stay.
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State level judges should not have this much power to effect global companies. Decisions like this should only be enforceable at a supreme court level.
I mean really. We can get a page telling us the site doesn't exist, or we can be re-directed to a search engine which can help us find what we were looking for. Yeah it helps pimp Microsoft, but I figure if you are using their browser, it is fair game.
Very true - Although by the time I see this actually being useful, I imagine other technologies rendering this obsolete.
Gimmicky What can I say more?
I used OpenOffice for 7 years of college and had zero issues, and probably about 75% of submission had to be in electronic form. What do you use Word for that you can't use Wordpad.exe for? Why can't you do the formatting in Mediawiki and then export to PDF?
Ok, it's pretty easy to see why you don't understand why email is still (unfortunately) relevant, but give it a couple years in a corporate or medium business; none of the services you mention have even half the features of email.
Oh if only you had used Word (or Firefox, or OpenOffice) to compose this message it would have been spell checked!
I actually was using FF, but was in a hurry. I think you misread what I was saying. I still think Email is extremely important, I was saying based on his horrible logic that it wasn't. Wordpad doesn't do spell check, its formatting is more manual and has far fewer options. It is by no means an acceptable substitute to Word. Open Office is great for a free program, but it is not nearly as powerful as Word, nor does it offer the nice UI that Word does.
Some of us actually do more than just email short statements to friends these days. In fact, I suspect that this user might think email is on its way out, since according to this same logicl, email doesn't do anything more than a blog, twitter, chatting, or Facebook can't do. On my school campus, we don't always have to print. However, when we don't, we still write/prepare the documents in word, and then attach them to an email, or print them as a PDF. Either way, Word is still instruemental in the writing, formatting, reviewing, and etc, of that document. There is no acceptable alternative to Word. Open Office Word is ok at best. Google docs is ok, but it is web based. Until someone attempts to take on the almighty Word (highly unlikely due to its universal use across both PC and Mac platforms) - then Word is here to stay.