Things are better. They have a strategy; they have Apple Centers; they have service centers that actually give a rat’s ass (despite being an authorized Apple service center, they wouldn’t fix an Apple laser writer I had because Elex, as an Apple reseller, never actually sold that particular model of laser printer; “Take it back to the States and have it fixed,” I was told).

With Elex in charge, it’s a wonder anyone was using Macs back then.

I still use Word and Powerpoint. But I’m doing “corporate” stuff.

I don’t use much Word any more, as I don’t do much corporate crap any longer, and am a happy Office-less fella. Most of my writing in Korean is now done in emails, so all is fine

Interesting story, KrZ. And, uh, interesting imagery.

When people who have had very smooth-running systems (their Mac) end up having buttloads of trouble thanks to another system (Microsoft), is it really any wonder that some become fanatical about the whole Mac-versus-Windows debate?

It is MS’s predatory tactics, not their software, which have gotten them into the dominant position they’re in.

Around MS Word 6 (Macintosh) they tried to rework it to make it like the Windows version. Then in 1998 they actually started calling what would have been Word 7 “MS Word 98.”

The thing is that Word for Mac was superior to Word for Windows, but they basically lowered the next version of Word for Mac to make it like Word for Windows, and (I think) made the Mac version like an emulated Windows version.

It was PAINFULLY slow (it would take five minutes or so to load up) and Microsoft had to send version 6.1 for free to everyone because of the complaints.

Of course, this “oversight” seemed part of Microsoft’s strategy of reducing enthusiasm for Macs, by gutting and crapping all over the one good Mac program they made, which was also an essential Mac application.

The current edition of Office is much better, but it is still a humongous program, and the only program I still really have problems with on my Macs. I will thank Bill Gates for (finally) pushing the idea of cross-platform compatibility.

Made brochures and advertisings, letterheads and mailings. Websites.

In my experience MS Word: Mac is still an inferior ported version of MS Word for Windows, and is often very slow on the Macintosh; plus Korean/Hanja support/spellchecking is vastly inferior to that on the Windows version. There are still some cases where Korean word processing is going to be easier on the PC, though Koreans themselves seem to do fine using Macs for page layout.

Thank you DDA.

Hmmm, now I should see if , , , (o- and u-breve majuscule and minuscule) show up correctly in Blogger, in Firefox on a Windows 2000 machine, as they do not show up properly in IE under such a set-up…. (Although they do show up on non-Blogger blogs, and in Windows 98, oddly enough….)

I checked on my wife’s PeeCee, and lo and behold, it doesn’t work, I olnly see the sidebar… Grrr!