Microsoft Word
Writing a controversial history textbook for a campaign to get it adopted by high schools, Creating and editing traditional documents where the content's ownership and politics are separate from the tool
It's a powerful, industry-standard suite, but its complexity can be frustrating for users who just need to write.
Writing papers for grad school (drives users mad), Replacing WordPerfect for dedicated users who mastered its specific features like mail merge
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Microsoft Word is almost the only non-Adobe product which is capable of producing such PDFs, and only when _saving_ as a PDF, not when _printing_ as a PDF.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Producing PDFs with in-document jump links and bookmarks
Microsoft Word’s grammar checker spins up the CPU fans on an old Intel laptop with a long enough document.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Grammar checking/proofreading
Microsoft tried to remake Word, the rewrite failed. Luckily they had continued to develop the old codebase in parallel.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Rewriting the application
For the makers of traditional software like word processors, all writing was the user's own - if someone used Microsoft Word to write a controversial history textbook and campaigned to get it adopted by high schools, the political quagmire was nothing to do with Microsoft.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Writing a controversial history textbook for a campaign to get it adopted by high schools
Non technical users who had mastered mail merge in WordPerfect would rather beat you up and leave you in the gutter for dead rather than look at Word.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Attempted replacement for WordPerfect among dedicated users.
Not everyone wants or needs all of whiz bang features of Obsidian or Notion or Microsoft Word.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Implied as a complex word processor, contrasted with simpler writing-focused tools.
I lasted a semester before it drove me mad just trying to write papers.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Writing papers for grad school
Calling iA Writer a competitor of Word like calling Hank’s Special Brew he makes in his garage a competitor of Heineken.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Implied as the bloated, mainstream word processing standard
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