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Subject: Re: Microsoft makes a lot of money, Is Intel exceptionally
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On 20/09/2024 07:53, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> MitchAlsup1 <mitchalsup@aol.com> schrieb:
>> On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 23:44:48 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:20:56 -1000, Lynn Wheeler wrote:
>>>
>>>> MS employees were commenting that customers had been buying the latest
>>>> releases for the new features ... but it had reached the point where the
>>>> releases they were running now had 98% of the features they wanted (and
>>>> the company wasn't sure what to do next).
>>>
>>> Verity Stob once asked the question: “name one feature of Microsoft
>>> Office that you use daily, that was added this century”.
>>
>> I bought a hammer in 1977, I can still use it today...
>>
>> As far as I know, the only feature I use (and an unnecessary one) is
>> the coloring of URL text blue and underlining it, that was added this
>> century.
> 
> I don't use it daily (that would be Saturdays and Sundays, too)
> but often enough - the new formula editor is better than the
> old one, especially since you can paste LaTeX source into it.
> To make up for it, the new method of writing equation references
> is braindead.
> 
> But bricking the old formula editor... that was Not Nice (TM).

To me, the answer is just to use LaTeX.