A new Axis of Evil?
Microsoft and Yahoo - "Not a matter of 'If' but 'When'"
My two least-favourite IT companies merging to compete with Google? I can't see it working somehow. There'll just be one big company producing ugly software and web applications rather than two.
Unlike many people, I don't dislike Microsoft for it's operating systems. Windows XP is pretty usable and stable, when patched properly. It suffers from it's popularity more than anything else.
No, I hate Microsoft because of Word. I can't describe how much I hate Word. It frustrates me in a million little ways. The way it tries to make you work how it wants you to, rather than working the way you it want to. It's complex and showy, but with absolutely zero finesse.
And Yahoo have always annoyed me. Even more so now I'm using a Mac as my day-to-day home desktop. In fact, the only benefit I can imagine with a merger is maybe Yahoo will stop pretending to support Macs and pull out of the OSX software market altogether, rather that releasing piss-poor betas of Messenger and waiting us wait forever for non-broken versions.
Probably not though. :-)
My two least-favourite IT companies merging to compete with Google? I can't see it working somehow. There'll just be one big company producing ugly software and web applications rather than two.
Unlike many people, I don't dislike Microsoft for it's operating systems. Windows XP is pretty usable and stable, when patched properly. It suffers from it's popularity more than anything else.
No, I hate Microsoft because of Word. I can't describe how much I hate Word. It frustrates me in a million little ways. The way it tries to make you work how it wants you to, rather than working the way you it want to. It's complex and showy, but with absolutely zero finesse.
And Yahoo have always annoyed me. Even more so now I'm using a Mac as my day-to-day home desktop. In fact, the only benefit I can imagine with a merger is maybe Yahoo will stop pretending to support Macs and pull out of the OSX software market altogether, rather that releasing piss-poor betas of Messenger and waiting us wait forever for non-broken versions.
Probably not though. :-)
i should not HAVE to know the little tricky ways to get rid of that line you just inserted for me, you f-ing program. you should just let me delete it!
*tears out hair*
sorry - this problem gets particularly bad for me around exam-time, when i have forty-page documents that i'm working with.
what programmer thought that one would ever, EVER want all the letters in an outline to be "A" and all the numbers to be "1"??
Why are footers and headers in view? poxy program.
@Jane: If you want to see headers / footers, I think you need to switch your 'view' to 'print layout' (via the control at bottom / left). If you get a black line where they should be, click it and select 'show page separators (or something like that).
/me = sh*te at times as well :-D
I don't what it is about Word, but I find it like a black hole for creativity. If I want to do anything other than a business letter, I use something else. Notepad or PICO. They're enough to get the message out of my head.
The next version of Word has 'the ribbon' which is context sensitive - which I guess means you won't be able to find what you want to do 90% of the time. But, for the mostof us, IT will roll it out anyway. Still, provided you can do bold/italics, spellcheck and load/save; most us will be happy.
And that poxy little paperclip that insists on popping up
Two words: Group Policy. :)
No more Office Terrorist.
All that extra code and to what purpose? It makes the page 1000 times bigger than it needs to be.
Dreamweaver actually has a facility to strip out some of the code leaving you to manually cut out the rest.
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