Michael Hanscom says he'd buy a 1988-era version of Microsoft Word, but updated to run on OSX. On the Windows platform don't we call that WordPad? ;-) [The Scobleizer Weblog]

yeah, on Mac OS 10.3 "Panther" it's called TextEdit, and it reads .doc files and can save to them natively. This may be the "killer app" for all those techno-phobe folks out there.

Hey Scobe - You ask people what Microsoft can do to make users happier, and he's handing you an answer right there:

Kill Feeping Creature-itis (Creeping Feature-itis for you lay-folk out there) Or at least provide an answer to it.

I know a fair number of clients who still don't like using any of the modern versions of Word. Why? Too much clutter. I think if you checked around, you'd find a lot of people still using Word 5 believe it or not. Figure out how to get these people to upgrade, there's something that makes Business Sense, right?

Yeah, Yeah, I know, Longhorn'll have something really neat just like this, right? :)

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Lately I've heard more, for some reason, about the alleged hazards of networked democracy — of the risks of mob rule, of candidates and legislatures governing by poll rather than principle. Maybe the risks are there, but I think the upside so far exceeds the downside that the latter serves mostly as a red herring. [Doc Searls Weblog]

Reminds me, for some reason, of a quote from R. A. Heinlein's book Starship Troopers (Not that atrocity of a movie!) when they were discussing why their Govt. (based on the premise that you has to serve a term in Federal service before you could become a voting citizen) was still in place.

The Answer: "Because it has worked".

I think we're at, and have been for some time, a similar place in regards to our government. The part we're at, i fear is the part where it stops working. Or not, and I think we're at that part in the cycle where we (the voters) can make that difference.

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