• Re: Microsoft makes a lot of money, Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture designer?

    From Andreas Eder@a_eder_muc@web.de to comp.arch on Mon Nov 4 09:43:30 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.arch

    On Sa 21 Sep 2024 at 12:19, David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:

    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.

    +1

    'Andreas
    --
    ceterum censeo redmondinem esse delendam
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  • From scott@scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) to comp.arch on Mon Nov 4 15:51:52 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.arch

    Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de> writes:
    On Sa 21 Sep 2024 at 12:19, David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:

    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.

    +1

    I still use troff.

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