atw: Re: MS Word 2010 and change-tracking
- From: Lana Brindley <lanabrindley@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:12:23 +1000
Well, there are plenty of software offerings that don't come from
Microsoft but still suck. I had to learn FrameMaker in a weekend not
so long ago. Worst weekend of my life, and I've got a small child. I
wasn't talking about the corporate structure, but the way the software
is developed.
I've met a few of the Mozilla guys, including several of their
documentation team, and I have to say that their point of difference
is their focus on community. When there's a problem, there's not just
a few hundred (or thousand, in the case of MS) developers looking at,
but millions of interested users. That's a much bigger test base, and
a much bigger base of smart patch-writers. Even if the product that is
shipped has problems, those problems are generally fixed faster and
more completely than issues in Internet Explorer.
The Mozilla Developer Network is a thing of beauty, I can assure you,
and one of the main reasons why their software doesn't suck. There's a
lot to be learned there.
L
On 19 July 2011 06:35, Rod Stuart <rod.stuart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It doesn't come from Microslop?
>
> On 19 July 2011 06:32, Lana Brindley <lanabrindley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 18 July 2011 22:12, Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > A few thoughts as to "why we put up with it":
>> >
>> > This isn't specifically a TW problem. Experienced consumers of all
>> > stripes already know that retail software is usually shipped with known
>> > defects. In the world of consumer products, software is the king of
>> > mediocrity.
>> >
>> > Occasionally, as with Firefox, a product will capture significant market
>> > share without significant marketing, simply because it is somewhat less
>> > defective than the market leader.
>>
>> So the question becomes: what is it about Firefox that makes it better
>> (or "less defective") than other software? What's different about it?
>>
>> L
>>
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