Happy Birthday

No, this is not another little token post because some bloke realised he turned 16. Someone turned 25. Actually, to be precise, something.

Happy Birthday Microsoft Word!

Some people will obviously consider this as irrelevant, as do I (the post is cause I’m bored, and reading some old unread mail). Still, it’s a pretty well-used application. I mean to say that, Mozilla Firefox can be considered a contender to Internet Explorer, but to be quite honest, OpenOffice doesn’t yet have a hope in hell against Microsoft Office. In fact, when I use Lotus Symphony (based on OpenOffice), I still end up making documents in .doc format, just so that others who might be viewing the document don’t have problem.

Nevertheless, it has evolved, along with the entire Office suite. Major leaps like the context sidebar in Office XP (I think), and the all important Ribbon on Office 2007. But then, it’s also had its share of bugs and holes. But, it is still a permanent fixture in all office PCs, and to be honest, 90% of home PCs as well. Not mine though…

What more can I write about Word? I’m not going to review it…too lame a job…a total waste of time…oh yeah…I know…Icould write it a song, but that’d be lame as well…I mean…who’s vela enough to serenade obsolete software…I think I’ll leave it at that…

UPDATE : I haven’t tried OpenOffice 3.0, and am downloading it now, will change the post if I really like it. I’m reading good things about it. Want to see for myself.