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On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:12:43 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

On CNBC this morning, there was a segment on Vista and the guests to a
person said Vista is an unmitigated diaster and may be a sign of the
begining of the end for Microsoft as a market leader.

Well, they have one hell of a long way to go before they are not the
market leader, but . . .

With a several year build cycle for an OS, they sure as hell can't afford
to blow another one. It's also worth noting, MS Office 2007 isn't
burning up the sales either, and those are the only two product lines MS
makes money on.

Really weird:

I tried MS Office 2007, or at least parts of it. I don't much like WORD
to begin with, but at least WORD in the Office 2003 suite was usable. I
couldn't make heads or tails out of WORD 2007. But, and this is the
weird part, the WORD application in the Office 2008 suite for Macs works
very well for me and is easy to use. So, Word 2008 is what I use on my Mac.

When I am working on my PC and need a word processor, I use Wordperfect
and simply autosave all my files in WORD 2003 format, which just about
everyone can handle. In fact, there seems to be no problems
interchanging these files among the various computers, operating
systems, clients, et cetera. Part of that is that when I write for $$$,
my output is a simple text file. If it is going to be put into a
brochure or suchlike, a graphics artist does the conversions. Makes my
life easier.

About the only MS Office product I use on my PC is Excel, from the 2003
Suite. I never liked MS's presentation program, so now I use the much
better one that came with my Mac. My Mac laptop is near perfect for
desktop presentations, and for $20 or so, I got a Mac remote to control
the laptop.