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WordSoftware

by Microsoft

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

3 people

Who disliked it

Bennett Foddy
Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.
disliked

For writing philosophy, I have to use Word for collaborating with other philosophers, but I hate it with great passion

His Uses This interview, a long and mostly exasperated tour of his hardware and software.

2012-08-10·usesthis.com ↗

Mandy Brown
Writer, editor and coach; co-founder and editor of A Book Apart and a former contributing editor at A List Apart.
disliked

Editing for the books usually happens in either Word or Pages; I have no love for either, but Word plays nicely with InDesign, so we're a little but stuck with it for now.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview, given while she was communications director at Typekit.

2012-03-19·usesthis.com ↗

Emily Short
Interactive narrative designer and critic; author of interactive fiction including Galatea and a long-time contributor to the Inform development system.
disliked

(I have never forgiven Word for screwing up the encoding of every Greek quotation in my dissertation weeks before the deadline, in such a way that even backups didn't work, and requiring me to set the entire thing from scratch in Pages.

Her Uses This interview, on the tools behind her interactive fiction and criticism.

2011-02-07·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.

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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:

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