Ranting about software upgrades (particularly MS Word) *Spare the rod, spoil the computer?* by Professor Harold Thimbleby ¹ via yrk on #emacs.
First, why did I upgrade from my old Word 5.1, which I had been happily using? I had been getting text from people which I couldn’t read, and I was incompatible. And Word 98 promised lots of new features for me. I felt I was being overtaken by faster people! I succumbed and bought Word 98 – but I delayed a few weeks before I finally installed it. You see, I was worried that perhaps it wouldn’t work, and I might lose some of my existing work. If I had being thinking about buying a Toyota instead of my Land Rover, I would not have worried about whether I could still use the same route to work.
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