Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 22:33 GMT, Tom penned:
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> When I worked at Microsoft there was some discussion: far and away the
> most common use-case for Excel is entering a few rows and columns of
> data and making a chart. But nobody uses Microsoft tools like
> Microsoft itself: you should have *seen* some of the fancy
> spreadsheets the GM-level staff put together.
I'm being forced to use Excel and Powerpoint at work. I hate it. It's
not just MS-specific, in this case: I hate data entry, and I hate
prettifying it.
Hah, vim just indented that line because I had a "case statement" in it.
Too funny! Anyhoo ...
Where was I? Oh, yes. Using froo-froo presentation tools. It sucks.
Developers shouldn't have to do this crap =/ And definitely shouldn't
be judged by whether they're using the right colors, fonts, etc.
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> I have this belief that 90% of jobs are unnecessary; they are just
> something for people to do all day because otherwise they'd go out and
> burn cars. Most of the things I have to do with Excel and Word fall
> in that category.
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> For small datasets, I finally realized plaintext files and simple
> tools like gnuplot are more flexible than Excel.
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monique
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