Moving to non-Word formats [long] (was: Re: Having trouble finding a word in multiple files

[rikona]

On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:49:07 +0200
Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 17:28, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
> >
> > But retraining office staff to think in terms of *data* instead of
> > *appearance* is probably not cost-effective. Bear in mind that 30
> > years of Microsoft (and other; remember WordPerfect?) marketing
> > spend has been concentrated on the message IF IT LOOKS PRETTY IT
> > MUST BE RIGHT.  
> [...]
> 
> All this and more: strongly agreed.
> 
> Item: I submit that MS Outlook, by intelligently combining what had
> been 3 different apps -- email, scheduling and contacts management --
> made itself the killer app for business email, and because it has
> broken quoting and cannot handle top-quoting, it has effectively
> destroyed email as a discussion tool. This has destroyed Usenet,
> created the entire market of social and business communication tools
> from Slack to RocketChat to MatterMost, as well as nightmares such as
> "business social networks".
> 
> All because it made business email users use Microsoft Word as their
> email editor.

Agreed - I had to live with that for a long time...

> An entire generation of users now do not know how to use threaded
> online discussions, and this is considered entirely normal and nothing
> to worry about.
>