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Microsoft WordSoftware

by Microsoft

Who uses, recommends or left Microsoft Word, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Writer and education-technology critic; publishes Hack Education and wrote Teaching Machines.
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When I'm writing articles etc that need to be shared with an editor, I typically write in Microsoft Word. I hate all word processing software, and anyone who insists that Google Docs is so much better than Word is a liar.

Her Uses This interview, on the writing and publishing tools behind Hack Education.

2019-10-15·usesthis.com ↗

Engineering manager who has worked at Apple, Netscape, Slack and Palantir; writes as Rands at randsinrepose.com and wrote Managing Humans.
disliked

For subsequent drafts and editing, I end up in Microsoft Word which pisses me off.

His written "Uses This" interview, covering his "coffee shop rig" and "home rig".

2010-07-09·usesthis.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.