Word Fails Me - Why doesn’t Microsoft’s writing tool actually help writers?

Re:Word Fails Me - Why doesn’t Microsoft’s writing tool actu... by drats on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @06:08PM (#1362534)

They just launched, in 2010, and it's IE only? Plus a link to a pdf of the DMCA in the bottom corner for no apparent reason. Wow, just wow.

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Re:Word Fails Me - Why doesn’t Microsoft’s writing tool actu... by blasdel on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @07:45PM (#1362774)

Sounds like it's an ActiveX control -- I thought you could only get away with that in South Korea.

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Re:Word Fails Me - Why doesn’t Microsoft’s writing tool actu... by aidenn0 on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @06:20PM (#1362570)

IE has the biggest installed base by far.

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Re:Word Fails Me - Why doesn’t Microsoft’s writing tool actu... by alextingle on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @07:09PM (#1362688)

Depends where you go. I have a (fairly) general interest site that gets about 100,000 unique visitors per month, and only about 55% of them use IE. Cutting out 45% of your potential market is quite a cost for a bit of lazy programming.

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Re:Word Fails Me - Why doesn’t Microsoft’s writing tool actu... by kragen on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @07:55PM (#1362793)

What web site? Or, at least, how general-interest?

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Re:Word Fails Me - Why doesn’t Microsoft’s writing tool actu... by alextingle on Thursday May 20, 2010 @04:41PM (#1365322)

http://flood.firetree.net/usage/

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Re:Word Fails Me - Why doesn’t Microsoft’s writing tool actu... by eru on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @08:27PM (#1362868)

Perhaps it's a German site?

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