Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!sri-unix!stores From: stores@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MS Word 4.0: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Message-ID: <30395@sri-unix.SRI.COM> Date: 9 May 89 01:05:24 GMT References: <1860@aucs.UUCP> <10094@claris.com> Reply-To: stores@unix.sri.com (Matt Mora) Organization: SRI, Menlo Park, CA. Lines: 44 In article <10094@claris.com> krazy@claris.com (Jeff Erickson) writes: >"And in this corner, wieghing in at $249 retail, the challenger, MacWrite II!" > >From article <1860@aucs.UUCP>, by peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele): >> I've been using Microsoft Word for a few days now and my general impression >> is that I really like it. They've fixed up some things I felt were missing >> or poorly implemented and they added some nice brand new features. Here are >> some random comments. >> Stuff deleted >> 5. Customization >> I like this. I know some people have complained, but let's fact it. >> You can't put every command in a menu, and this at least let's you >> pick which ones you want. It will be a pain if I have to go to >> another person's machine [...] That's the price of individuality. > >Pardon. (retch!) Sorry. No, we don't do this either. Thank God. I'm >really glad I'm not a Tech Support person at MicroSoft. ("Now WHERE's your >Save command??") [Please, no flames. At least, don't post them.] More stuff deleted I thought the whole idea about customization was to put in or take out the features that you needed. If you took out a lot of unused features the program should load faster and run faster. Not Word 4.0. I never thought that an application would get slower as the version numbers increased. I tried word 4.0 on a mac II and it seems pretty slow. I think they've gone too far with there customizing. -- ___________________________________________________________ Matthew Mora SRI International stores@unix.sri.com ___________________________________________________________