I got a great deal (thanks Nelson, thanks Adam!) on Office 2007, and the new version of Word comes with a handy feature to publish from Word to my blog. I’m not sure what advantages it has to over just logging into my blog’s admin panel (but I can think of some disadvantages, like not being able to approve comments (once again, thanks Erin for being my most consistent commenter).

This post is just to merely check the functionality of said function, but all in all I think Microsoft is slowly realizing that the feature set of their applications needs to be updated somewhat in order to truly be professional class.

I read this off Joey Devilla’s blog a while ago, quoted from here:

“One of my big bones with MS stuff is that it always makes me feel like I’m eating out of the trash bins outside a cubicle farm. All of their software is designed to help busy executives plan their lives. Everyone I know uses it to try and write birthday cards and chat with their friends. When people use Microsoft Office they use it anywhere but in an office. Microsoft knows this – but it also knows that the money comes from their corporate clients, so there’s a limit to how much it can bend its software toward a wider customer base. Ultimately when you use MS software, you’re not the end user MS perceives at all: we’re just living off the scraps Microsoft leaves out after feeding its big customers.”

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