Microsoft Word was never designed to be an ideal tool for creative writing, programming, or any such thing.
Then indeed, its influence over those fields should be allowed to wane.
LibreOffice? Call me again when it gets the Review function right.
I was required to use the Review feature as a sort of half-assed collaborative editing system for tech specs on a couple of projects around 2008-2010. I found it to be a buggy, work-destroying trap of a feature. Things would actually have gone more smoothly for my project Microsoft had never implemented this feature.
I haven't tried any similar features in LibreOffice. If it doesn't do anything totally crazy (like randomly duplicating blocks of text in odd places) it's probably better.
I read an interview with some high-muckety-muck in the MS Office group years ago. He actually said, in response to a question about features vs. bug fixes, that he was sure users preferred new features to bug fixes for old ones. That features got people excited and no one really cared if they lost a little work every few hours.
He didn't say he'd asked any users. He was just sure.
I wish I could link to it, but I don't recall where I read it.
> he was sure users preferred new features to bug fixes for old ones
He's probably right (if you think of users as being the person who approves the payment). I can't imagine the CFO at a Fortune 500 company approving a few million dollars to be spent on bug fixes. The obvious question would be "why did we pay for defective software in the first place?".
So perhaps one side effect of the subscription model will be less buggy software, since the business model relies more on keeping users than getting them to upgrade.
Yep. This is why Excel is actually a really good spreadsheet: the people who approve the purchase are in fact the people using it - the bosses and the accountants.
Then indeed, its influence over those fields should be allowed to wane.
LibreOffice? Call me again when it gets the Review function right.
I was required to use the Review feature as a sort of half-assed collaborative editing system for tech specs on a couple of projects around 2008-2010. I found it to be a buggy, work-destroying trap of a feature. Things would actually have gone more smoothly for my project Microsoft had never implemented this feature.
I haven't tried any similar features in LibreOffice. If it doesn't do anything totally crazy (like randomly duplicating blocks of text in odd places) it's probably better.
I read an interview with some high-muckety-muck in the MS Office group years ago. He actually said, in response to a question about features vs. bug fixes, that he was sure users preferred new features to bug fixes for old ones. That features got people excited and no one really cared if they lost a little work every few hours.
He didn't say he'd asked any users. He was just sure.
I wish I could link to it, but I don't recall where I read it.