Sympathies also, but agonizing over this issue must be strictly disciplined or you'll wind up a permanent crankiness (like me). Lawyers had to suck it up when Microsoft Word won, though WordPerfect was about 3X as good a word processor for legal documents. After MS won the office suite about the turn of the century, they had to use what …
Sympathies also, but agonizing over this issue must be strictly disciplined or you'll wind up a permanent crankiness (like me). Lawyers had to suck it up when Microsoft Word won, though WordPerfect was about 3X as good a word processor for legal documents. After MS won the office suite about the turn of the century, they had to use what everybody else was using.
We learned over and over again with computers, that the one time you can make a crappy product a standard is when the whole product-category is new. As long as everybody is getting something better, it can be a much-lower good, and the benefits from having a *common good* are high.
Microsoft leveraged their monopoly on the OS to extend monopoly to office software, and now communications solutions, with Messenger and Teams - still at it after 30 years!
Not off-topic, because if you can compromise a deeply-entrenched standard because it depends on one company, you can really infiltrate anybody and everybody.
Sympathies also, but agonizing over this issue must be strictly disciplined or you'll wind up a permanent crankiness (like me). Lawyers had to suck it up when Microsoft Word won, though WordPerfect was about 3X as good a word processor for legal documents. After MS won the office suite about the turn of the century, they had to use what everybody else was using.
We learned over and over again with computers, that the one time you can make a crappy product a standard is when the whole product-category is new. As long as everybody is getting something better, it can be a much-lower good, and the benefits from having a *common good* are high.
Microsoft leveraged their monopoly on the OS to extend monopoly to office software, and now communications solutions, with Messenger and Teams - still at it after 30 years!
Not off-topic, because if you can compromise a deeply-entrenched standard because it depends on one company, you can really infiltrate anybody and everybody.