| Zappykins said: They were the first to unify with word processing, spread sheets, desktop publishing, etc. You used to have to learn how to do things for each one. Like underlining might be one command or colour on one, a different one on another. It was tedious and cumbersome. Word Perfect was the undisputed King of word processing. Microsoft came along with Works and their Office software and you would do the same thing in Word as you would Excel, Outlook, Power Point, etc. It greatly enhanced the user experience. They killed Word Perfect with Word. Almost nobody used WP anymore, anywhere. Some of you may remember Real Player, Load TV, etc. When just trying to get a window to open or close was a pain. Every software had it's own way of doing things and you ended up with mystery meat navigation. It was awful. Now, They are not only combining the user level integration, but the behind the scenes too. Everything is going 64 bit only, DirectX 12, etc. I think for the greatest part this will only enhance productivity and efficiency. It's also the first Real behind the scenes change for PC since Vista. (Window 7 is just Vista.1, Windows 8 and 8.1 are just gussied up Windows 7, etc.) Bring it on! |
Who cares whether they were first or last or anything like that.
What matters is is that Word 2013 is the definetive best Document Processor on the Planet, Even Mac OSX is using it. Office 2013 is basically the best productivity suite next to Adobe's
WMP is only contested by Itunes and VLC cause of its streaming problems, but I do wonder why WMC is still a thing.
Windows 7 is orders of magnitude better than Vista however, as Vista was buggy, slowly, easily hacked, Clunky, whereas 7 is arguably more stable then XP., and much faster.
8 is a level above 7 in terms of speed and security, but the appcentric design and context switching really killed the OS for me, sure its good if your a media consumer but it is anti-productive for sure, i mean the apps going full screen by default alone calls into question how what their priorities where, unifying the interfaces, rather than playing to the strengths of each device. Somethings where nice like its handling of processes and file handling but things like quick boot are pointless to me, as I rarely ever shutdown my PC.
I'd rather W9 make an OS that works for everything, not to simple that it becomes unusable for anyone trying to do actual work, but not to complex that you end up SUDO everything anyway (like Linux >_>) instead of what W8 was an OS trying to cater to everything, jack of trades master of non sort of deal.
To be fair W8 Excelled on touch devices such as tablets, but using it on a Laptop without touch was actually painful sometimes
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