I made a small but useful discovery while reading some ancient documents online. I copied them out on Word for Windows 2003, then added my remarks with my conclusions and notes for future work. I hit the save as button, and the whole computer shut down, shooting my work to Hell. All this because (as I had forgotten) Windows Vista does not like Word for Windows 2003 - you have to buy the most recent Office package, paying hundreds of pounds for the privilege. Word 2003 is only one of at least a dozen software packages which have "known compatibility issues" with Vista, causing everything from screen crashes to complete and immediate shutdowns. And Vista has NOTHING to offer the user that is so wonderful as to justify this scorched-earth policy, which is evidently built into the product.
I normally use Word for Windows 98, which, for some reason, does not make trouble. But that is beside the point. What you suggest is useful defensive stuff against Vista's destructive features, but we should not have to defend ourselves against our own operating system.
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Date: 2008-08-30 09:14 am (UTC)1. Google Docs.
2. Open Office. (I'd be using that, if my work didn't require me to have access to Visual Basic.)
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