Steven Poole – Goodbye, cruel Word:
An account of someone who, for the first time in what seems forever for him, does not use Word anymore, does not even have it installed…..
It’s a great write-up to explain what is wrong with bloated software, and where the problems are that you face as a market leader. Microsoft, for a long time, was measured in it’s releases on how many new checkboxes you could make next to a product. That is just no longer true.
