Dear MS Office,
We’ve had some fun times, haven’t we? Like that time I was presenting at a Linguistic Colloquium and Powerpoint crashed, and then randomly misplaced all my audio files, so I had to improvise and recreate the infant cries with my own voice 
So fun.
Oh and I will never forget that time when Word crashed whilst I was writing my MA thesis conclusion, and the back-up save failed, and the back-up back-up fail was a huge mess, so I had to re-write it from my actual “brain” memory at 5am. Good times. Wow.
Oh and Excel. The way Excel screws up everything. So, like, everything I did in it became a cesspool of disorder and crappiness. Love that. The long hours of entering data that I lost because of you will be remembered fondly.
And every time I transfered files from my Mac to a PC. Like the day I was printing out my thesis (at the last possible moment) and you decided to add a extra blank page to the beginning of every chapter so all the page numbers were pushed out of sync with the Table of Contents (which was a bloody disaster… again… because of you).
To summarize: YOU SUCK, Microsoft RUBBISH.
Fond Regards,
Lisa
PS. Meet my new bf.
We are so in love.
Slaff said on August 7th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
Seems to be a great office tools
MJ Klein said on August 7th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
i use Open Office under linux. absolutely incredible and works with MS and Word Perfect products.
Tom said on August 8th, 2007 at 12:01 am
I have absolutely no opinion, but this opinion on the overall opinion of universal opinions. Good night.
walid878 said on August 8th, 2007 at 7:22 am
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antonio said on August 8th, 2007 at 9:12 am
Good for you on taking the plunge!
I can relate to you “experiences” and also looking into moving to a MAC! good luck!
Xavier said on August 8th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Hmmmm…. Maybe now that i have a MacBook i should get iWork? …. This trial version of Office is oh so awesome though!
grant czerepak said on August 8th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
I have gone completely open source.
Lisa Bettany said on August 9th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
@Slaff — yaya!
@MJ Klein — Open or Closed, MS is still Rubbish.
@Tom — Badger.
@Walid — no problem. i like photo’s. no photos. right @Tom?
@Antonio — i am relating with your relating. i feel the www chasm of solitude start to close slightly. we are all one.
@Xavier — MB luv AKA “The Oven”. Words of Wisdom: 1. Buy cooling pad ASAP; 2. MS Office trial is even more Rubbishy than real one. Boo!
@grant czerepak — wikkid!