I am hurt
March 23rd, 2010
What am I to do? Everybody seems to hate my good old friend MSWord. I saved a twitter search on MSWord in my tweetdeck account, so I am confronted with it daily. About 95% of all tweets are about how people hate it. Especially the autocorrect seems to upset users. What I can't understand is why people act so irrational about the attempts Word makes in correcting what it finds.
Sometimes I help people by tweeting them back on some style issue or page numbering thing. Often it is quite useless: people have decided to hate it and some dude tweeting them advice won't change their determination to accuse Bill Gates of all the misery in their lives.
Honestly I feel helpless when the autocorrect feature isn't on. When typing in another language, or when using some other program than Word, there is nobody there to help you.
I would guess the Microsoft usability labs have made their homework. Most likely, the big majority of the user community likes how the thing helps you correcting errors. Big lesson for the marketing guys however, nobody's tweeting on how happy they are with MSWord. Maybe I need to go on a MSWord Good Will Pelgrimige. To honner my 15 year old friendship with the thing.
What about a daily #HappyHappyMSWord tweet? Spread the good vibes. Reassure the lonely writers like me they are not alone. Because honnestly, what other program is there to put all your thoughts through this creative process you call thinking and gets it outlined in bullets, tables, paragraphs and alike? Who wouldn't wish life had this magical ctrl+z to undo what you just said?
I guess there is little hope for those determined to be unhappy. I, for one, am very happy MSWord user. Please reply with what category you belong to.
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