Can’t stand Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac OS X? Try WordPerfect in Windows XP for a while…
Thursday, April 19th, 2007A simple RTF file is enough to bring an application down…
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Microsoft Office 2004: Zooming in and out of documents with the scroll wheel
Thursday, January 18th, 2007The best way to experience zooming vertigo is with Microsoft’s applications.
User interface and usability according to Microsoft
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007Microsoft engineers can actually change the user interface without affecting usability. These guys are geniuses.
Microsoft Office 2007: New file formats and Mac users
Wednesday, December 6th, 2006Incompatible file formats, and what you cannot do about them.
Text formatting logic according to Microsoft Word 2004
Monday, December 4th, 2006‘Paste Without Formatting’ does not mean approximate formatting in plain text!
Microsoft Office 2004: Update addresses problem with non-breaking spaces and Postscript fonts?
Monday, October 23rd, 2006Something got fixed–but was it by Microsoft or Apple? And it’s definitely not enough.
Microsoft Word 2004: Selection colour flakiness
Thursday, August 24th, 2006Microsoft cannot get even the most basic stuff right.
Microsoft on the elimination of Virtual PC and Visual Basic in Office applications
Thursday, August 10th, 2006Saying goodbye to Microsoft.
Microsoft Word 2004 in the real world: Slow, unreliable, crappy
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006Sometimes you just have to vent.
French punctuation in Microsoft Word: Rick Schaut chimes in
Sunday, June 25th, 2006Rick Schaut tries his hand at French typography, and embarrasses himself in the process.
Microsoft Word and non-breaking spaces: French Typography 101
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006Let’s give Erik Schwiebert a hand, shall we?
Erik Schwiebert on localized versions of Microsoft Office for Mac OS X
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006Erik Schwiebert explains the process that Microsoft uses for localized versions of Office for Mac OS X, and it pretty much explains everything that’s wrong about it.
Microsoft MacBU developers blogging about the transition to Xcode
Friday, June 2nd, 2006A couple of MS bloggers blogging about the next (universal) version of Office for Mac OS X.
Microsoft Word 2004: ‘Status bar’ preference and ‘Live Word Count’ option
Thursday, April 13th, 2006If there ever was a concise visual illustration of Microsoft’s twisted UI logic, this is it.
Microsoft Word v. X and Word 2004: Stalls not gone
Thursday, April 13th, 2006I spoke too soon.