I have to vent... MS Word 98

[speedfreak]

M$ is so helpful. Didn't you know they could read your mind? Their arrogance is mind boggling.

[evildan]

I often imagine the meeting that must have taken place when someone was pitching this idea to their boss... then that boss to his/her boss then finally making its way up to the senior staff meeting with Bill.

It might have gone something like this...

"... so remember how we had that problem in Excel? The problem of distinguishing between dates, currency, and general numbers. As you remember, studies have shown that people aren't using our labeling the fields feature we spent 11 Million implementing in 95. They are just entering in information without telling the program this is a date, a dollar amount, or just a general number. Well I think you'll agree Billy, we can't have that sort of reckless abandonment occurring upon data entry! Which is why I suggest we FORCE the number into one of those categories... based on a few loosely determined criteria that me and a few other guys came up with while drinking at lunch. What do you think? It should only cost us about $7 Million in development -- which we can always pass on to the consumer of course."

[speedfreak]

Lmao