I've been steadily building up my blogroll over the last few weeks. It's now up to around 50 blogs, so I've been looking for an opportunity to do some pruning. And thanks to this rant by Scoble, I've now been able to reduce my list by one.
I don't know who Robert Scoble is but some other bloggers spoke quite highly of him, so I thought I'd give him a go. After a few weeks, I've had enough. He blogs a lot but it all seems to come straight from the Microsoft PR department. And his latest defence of them as a worthy organisation (which seems to amount to the fact that they pay him a lot of money) is the final straw for me.
Judge for yourself, but I'll put him right on one point: Word wasn't better than WordPerfect at the time the latter got buried. I would galdly have stayed with WordPerfect but was forced to switch to Word because I had to be able to produce documents in it's proprietary format in order to exchange them with other people. And they all had Word because it had been dumped bundled with Windows.
Now – all these years and billions of dollars later – Word is still "a steaming pile". Why?
Posted by timo at June 10, 2003 08:09 PM | TrackBack