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Re:Word Fails Me - Why doesn’t Microsoft’s writing tool actu... by lallysingh on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @04:57PM (#1362326)
Emacs/LaTeX for me as well, but some non-technical friends of mine have had success with Nisus Writer.

There is a small market for actually-good word processing systems out there, it's just that Word is (a) usually already there on people's machines and (b) superficially sufficient.

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Re:Word Fails Me - Why doesn’t Microsoft’s writing tool actu... by Qz on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @05:43PM (#1362462)
It's really not superficially sufficient which is the problem. It only seems that way because there's nothing else. IE actually is superficially sufficient, but people still go and get firefox/chrome/whatever. No one gets a word alternative because there aren't any (and I mean alternative in the functional sense, not the free vs proprietary OpenOffice sense).
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