Posted 03/01/2009 at 05:32:44pm

I used Office for many years, on the Mac and PC.  On the Mac there are still dozens of glitches and flaws, none of them ever been fixed for ten years now.  The program will not hold the preferences, they have to be reset from time to time, I cannot insert a jpg image, only able to paste it in a document, the program makes decisions on its own and does things nobody asked, the tool palette keeps curling up and down for absolutely no reason.  The whole experience is typical Microsoft stupidity.  They want to play God and design software with a mind of its own, which is not what any user wants.  We want the program only do what we tell them and no more.  Thank you Microsoft, after years of frustration, now I use OpenOffice.org, Pages and Coffee.  No trouble, all of them saves in .doc or .xml, so who cares about Office 14 or even Windows 7.  Just because they screwed up Vista, now we should say thank you, after 8 years it may work, after they stolen and added a few ideas from Apple. I think, that anyone who signs up to work for Microsoft must obey their main rules; Intuition does not exist, steel innovation wherever you can find it, deadlines only exist at other companies.

Posted 06/26/2008 at 12:45:36am

Nice article, but your wish to exchange FireWire 400 (or 800) for anything else would be major inconvenience for Mac users.  However I would be very happy if USB would be eliminated from every device, except keyboards, mouse and trackballs.  FireWire is superior and much faster, plus it has a sturdy connector, unlike the amateurishly flimsy USB plugs.  I cannot understand why anyone ever thought of using USB with storage devices, including flash card readers, when FireWire is available and universal.