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 kenjackson on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @09:01PM (#1362927)

These posts are always interesting, but usually not all that informative. For every one of these posts there are probably 100 writers who are fine with Word.

There are some minor things I'd like out of Word, but the main thing is probably to start up faster. Takes about 3s on my computer. I'd love to see sub 1s startup.

With that said, OneNote is always running so I use that for a lot of the type of writing that this author refers to.

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Re:Word Fails Me - Why doesn’t Microsoft’s writing tool actu... by adbge on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @09:59PM (#1363023)

Running Word 2010 off a SSD, I found startup to be near instantaneous. I was impressed with how responsive it was for an application with such a huge feature set.

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Re:Word Fails Me - Why doesn’t Microsoft’s writing tool actu... by patio11 on Thursday May 20, 2010 @12:42AM (#1363271)

Ditto here. I just tabbed back into Windows (had been doing some programming in VMWared ubuntu) and fired up MS Word. Less than a second to where I could start typing.

If there is anyone here who doesn't own a SSD yet, buy one this week. It is the single biggest performance improvement I've ever seen on a computer. Apps start fast, VMs start fast, browsers load fast, your interpreted language running in a VM that needs to load 400 files of libraries doesn't care because its fast, etc.

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