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Word processing {{tag|software}} that never quite managed to | Word processing {{tag|software}} that never quite managed to make automatic paragraph numbering intuitive to the meatware, but nonetheless sweeps all other office word-processing software before it. | ||
Refuseniks may prefer [[Microsoft PowerPoint]] (if trained in [[middle management]]) or even [[Microsoft Excel]] (if accountancy) as a | Refuseniks may prefer [[Microsoft PowerPoint]] (if trained in [[middle management]]) or even [[Microsoft Excel]] (if accountancy) as a canvas for composing documents. But the days of purpose-built alternative word-processing software packages, like Lotus Notes, WordPerfect or even the admirable but, preternaturally doomed open-source OpenOffice are long gone. Google Docs might survive, but only because it purports to fill a very different need. | ||
[[Legaltechbros]] have a baffling conviction that their prospective clients are not so utterly fused to Microsoft Word that they will abandon a 40 year vintage class-leading application in favour of a browser-based html editor ginned up over a weekend by [[Bulgarian freelance coder|some Romanian coder they found on UpWork]]. This is baffling but may reflect the fact, as noted below, most [[legaltechbro]] are lapsed lawyers, lapsed lawyers are generally | And, ''Google''. | ||
[[Legaltechbros]] have a baffling conviction that their prospective clients are not so utterly fused to Microsoft Word that they will abandon a 40 year vintage class-leading application in favour of a browser-based html editor ginned up over a weekend by [[Bulgarian freelance coder|some Romanian coder they found on UpWork]]. | |||
Nor will it occur to them that, despite a market of of a billion users, only one paid-for word processing application has lasted. This ought, but doesn’t seem, to have real-world implications for their own [[legaltech startup]]s, competing as each one does with [[legaltech roll of honour| literally ''hundreds'' of basically identical offerings]]. [[The Quickening]] is coming. | |||
This is baffling but may reflect the fact, as noted below, most [[legaltechbro]] are themselves lapsed lawyers, and lapsed lawyers are not generally ''good'' ones, and not particularly good lawyers, as a class, tend to be the ones who are fundamentally ignorant of how powerful Microsoft Word is. | |||
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