![]() ![]() I recently did an experiment to see if I could write an academic paper in Word / Writer / Google docs, the terrible results are listed here: Tim, I know you think that most business docs need to be made web-ready as a matter of course, but have you tried to use a mainstream word processor to make HTML lately? Google docs might be good enough for previewing stuff people send you, but it has serious problems importing and exporting 'real' word processing docs, which it will mangle very badly. I haven't seen it in forever, nor have I seen Numbers, but I wonder if Numbers has its roots in Improv's features.įrom: Peter Sefton (Aug 08 2007, at 23:25) So you could create a list anywhere, and it would be comprehensible to anyone, but when open in TaskPaper, it becomes a formatted, active document.Īs for Numbers, the descriptions have made me think of Improv, the amazing financial tool that ran on (wait for it) NeXT, back in the day. But the document is just an ASCII list: the presentation is in the app, not unlike modern html/css. An example: the one man band that is Hogs Bay Software has rolled out a GTD app, very simple, just checklists that you can move/slice/edit. it will be interesting to see how a increasingly mobile workforce gets fed up with fat file formats and the heavy tools they require, vs lightweight versions of the docs and apps. More things like that will pry apart Office's grip. ![]() It's kind of minimal browser, if you like, or a browser that only views one site. I am using a beta app called Mailplane to access my Gmail. I’ll be honest, I’d thought that MS-Office on the desktop was going to be aĬentral feature of the ecosystem for as far forward as I could see. It’s going to be a triumph like Keynote or a stinking piece of crap like iCal,īut the fact that they’re trying is significant. Now I see that Apple is taking a run at the fortress with Then I saw “Open as as a Google Document” and I tried and, you know, it’s Which I accidentally opened once and it’s bollixed up my fonts somehow. Screwed up because my new Mac came with a trial version of the latest release, I have an elderly but still satisfactory version, but that’s all Normally I’d save it and open it with MacOffice Times in recent weeks, I was in gmail and there was a message with a. I hadn’t really paid much attention to the I want to bust the file-format logjam not because I think it’ll sweep OfficeĪway, but competition will make Office cheaper and all the competitors ![]() Some of the pieces of Office, though, are superb,Īnd would probably have been very successful over the years even without theįile-format lock-in and abusive competitive practices.Įxcel on my personal list of the five best pieces of software ever. Insurgents lurking out there in deep space their attacks are just pinpricks. That Office was the more important, and less open to attack. Microsoft is bipedal its legs are Windows and Office. ![]()
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