Word è una ciofeca

clipped from arstechnica.com Word for Windows 1.1 was a delight, with the transition to a GUI interface, then Word for Windows 2.0 both pleased me with a bevy of new features and frustrated me because it took twice the RAM just to get up in the morning. To figure this out, I tried to go back to basics and think about what Word was originally designed to do. In the early days, Word's primary purpose was to ready a document so that you could print it out. As a student I needed to print out essays so I could hand them to my instructor. In the office I needed to print out reports so that I could hand them to my supervisor. The end goal was always the same: I printed out something to give to someone more important than me, who would evaluate it and, if I was lucky, give it back to me at some indeterminate time in the future. One didn't question this; it was just the way the world worked. Now, consider that Outlook uses Word as the default editor for email and think about just how silly this all is.

Interessante: la transizione da Word 1.1 a Word 2.0 significò la necessità di raddoppiare la RAM "solo per dire buongiorno al mattino".

Dal 1983, Word non fa altro che raddoppiare i requisiti minimi e aggiungere features imbecilli che nessuno mai userà (dopotutto, a parte corsivi, neretti e un minimo di impaginazione, nel 99.999999999% dei casi non c'è bisogno di altro).

La cosa incredibile è che OpenOffice si è dovuto adeguare ai trogloditici standard del Microsoft Word...

Il Word esiste dal 1983, anche se noialtri lo scoprimmo verso il 1989. Ma purtroppo non è ancora morto (nonostante la prima beneaugurante immagine di questo post).