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[[Lawyer]]s usually are quite good at using [[track changes]], however. Lawyers ''love'' track changes. They wish you could do track changes on emails and text messages, and will take some pains to replicate track changes by formatting in {{strike|red strikethrough and |blue underlining}}. | [[Lawyer]]s usually are quite good at using [[track changes]], however. Lawyers ''love'' track changes. They wish you could do track changes on emails and text messages, and will take some pains to replicate track changes by formatting in {{strike|red strikethrough and |blue underlining}}. | ||
===Microsoft 365=== | |||
Having shifted its model to [[software-as-a-service]], Microsoft 365 has really embraced the networked world, integrated its suite into SharePoint and now nudges users to open documents by default in a crappy browser-based version of the application. This seems a faintly insane design choice: a bit like saying, “hey, cool, you have a licence for an Ferrari, but we’ll assume you just want a ridesharing zipcar unless you click here each time. Who nudges their customers away from a premium experience it costs nothing to give them? | |||
By the way, Ferrari an apt metaphor for Microsoft Word: | |||
*It does a lot of things that seem cool but most people will never use or understand (Ferrari: going from 0-100 in 3 seconds, travelling at 275 km/h; Word: styles, macros, outline view), | |||
*It does a lot of things it isn’t nearly as good as it should be at (Ferrari: going over judder bars, parallel parking; Word: document comparison, multi-level numbering) | |||
*It does a lot of basic things that break down a lot and when they do are prohibitively difficult/expensive to fix (Ferrari: engine, electrics; Word: fields, bookmarks, multilevel numbering, outline-linked paragraph styles etc). | |||
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