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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: I honestly do not understand how people put up with Windows
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 12:14:46 -0700
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I've been forced to use a Windows PC lately to do some work in Word 
where Microsoft has not seen fit to provide the same UI in Word for 
macOS as it has in Word for Windows; specifically surrounding what they 
now call "Content Controls" and which any normal person would call form 
fields.

It's not that the feature doesn't exist in the Mac version of Word—it 
sort of does, but there is no user interface for creating or modifying 
the content controls on the Mac. Microsoft just left them out! So, a 
Windows PC has become necessary to do this work.

And I'm doing so on a somewhat dated surplus PC I got from one of my 
clients, but it's a decent midr-range machine: a Lenovo T450s first 
released in 2015. And I've updated it to Windows 10.

But actually working on it is AWFUL.

The screen is awful. The rendering of fonts is awful. The fluidity of 
the trackpad and pointer is awful.

Using Word with a pointer that doesn't move fluidly is awful.

Understand, this is not a problem with understanding how to use the 
Windows UI.

I'm just comparing the quality of the experience of how it behaves 
against the gold standard...

....and it is coming up as dross.