Microsoft Word

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Also known as: Microsoft Word 5.1a

s09e19 2021-04-23 2,696 words · 13 min read The Device Becomes The App? … Google Docs and Microsoft Word and iA Writer are writing apps that presuppose that the thing that you’re in them is writing which makes total sense but …
s07e22 2019-11-26 2,371 words · 12 min read Cynical, me?; Snow Crashing Ch 13, part 3 … If I’m right, autocorrect has its roots in Microsoft Word 97 or so (unless, um, Microsoft “borrowed” it from somewhere before bringing it to the rest of …
s07extra06 2019-11-01 1,606 words · 8 min read Yet another extra bit … All of that's to say that this is being aggressively typed on an old Apple keyboard into Microsoft Word 5.1a, which I'm reliably informed is …
s07e14 2019-10-17 2,703 words · 14 min read Dunbar’s Goose and the Pump Handle … In other news, it turns out the latest version of Microsoft Word won’t automatically open Word files made by Word for Macintosh 5.1a! It’s a …
s07extra03 2019-10-11 2,653 words · 13 min read The extra bit … Gaming Chairs to write Electron apps or, even more amusingly, write requirements in Microsoft Word and Excel 365, upload them to Sharepoint and have Microsoft Teams open on …
s07e12 2019-10-10 4,048 words · 20 min read Scaling Bureaucracy … what is being done here is still predominantly occurring in, most likely, a Microsoft Word document, or, worst case, a series of PDFs. Roughly speaking, I feel like …
s06e07 2018-10-05 5,446 words · 27 min read Firebreak Protocol … and remediating toxic online communities was the background / real-time spellchecking introduced in Microsoft Word 95, when the most exciting thing that happened that year was seeing a …
s02e02 2015-06-02 982 words · 5 min read Typing, Continued … Track changes in Microsoft Word, my friends. You can't stop the qualified lawyer from practising law (and, indeed, make it illegal for him to do so) but …
ep 155 2014-09-04 1,954 words · 10 min read "Web" "Content" "Strategy"; "Probably Not"; Firewall Earth; To Clean The House … And then, blink and you'll miss it because you end up with Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop still requiring canvas dimensions for new documents, badly made school newsletters …
ep 46 2014-03-27 2,691 words · 13 min read Snow Crashing 3; Video is a Content-Type; Blame Your Tools … Then she writes down, in something that ultimately is just another version of Microsoft Word, a bunch of instructions that may or may not do what she has …