Actually I think the features in Word XP (or whatever it is called) are great. The smart tags I find immensely useful, as well as a lot of the inference rules. Sure it's not perfect, but Office XP is probably the first version of Office that I'd actually upgrade to since... shoot I don't know when. I've never lost a single document with Word (or any other word processor to be honest).
About features vs security vs stability. I do think MS has been a feature hungry company, but I think part of the reason for this Windows overhaul is security.
People at MS aren't idiots. In the 90s features were what were important. All the slashdotters will sit around talking about stability and security, but the fact of the matter is people didn't care about it until the internet took off.
Really I want it all. I don't want a stable Win'95. That's dead technology. I want WindowsXP, with 100% security, and 0 downtime.
Everything you described is something you can have with Windows -- well maybe not the X11 remote logins, but there is remote desktop, which is actually quite good.
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Actually I think the features in Word XP (or whatever it is called) are great. The smart tags I find immensely useful, as well as a lot of the inference rules. Sure it's not perfect, but Office XP is probably the first version of Office that I'd actually upgrade to since... shoot I don't know when. I've never lost a single document with Word (or any other word processor to be honest). About features vs security vs stability. I do think MS has been a feature hungry company, but I think part of the reason for this Windows overhaul is security. People at MS aren't idiots. In the 90s features were what were important. All the slashdotters will sit around talking about stability and security, but the fact of the matter is people didn't care about it until the internet took off. Really I want it all. I don't want a stable Win'95. That's dead technology. I want WindowsXP, with 100% security, and 0 downtime.
Everything you described is something you can have with Windows -- well maybe not the X11 remote logins, but there is remote desktop, which is actually quite good.