[X4U] MS Office 2008 delayed

[Thomas W Noel]

On Aug 5, 2007, at 12:41 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote:

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> On Aug 5, 2007, at 11:15 AM, Judi Sohn wrote:
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>> No. Randy got called out personally after he took the first  
>> swings. He didn't just offer to help clear up their Word problems,  
>> he personally insulted those that weren't interested in hacking  
>> Word for better performance. If you have to read a website with  
>> tips & tricks to make an application work in an acceptable manner,  
>> then the problem is with the application, not the user. He  
>> responded to application criticism with personal criticism, as if  
>> he were personally offended that his favorite word processor  
>> wasn't the same as everyone else's. That's where I had a problem.
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> If you read the posts, you will find that not all Word users are  
> having problems with Word's launch speed, or overall speed.  Only a  
> very few.  As with any program that folks have problems with (and  
> Word isn't, by far, the only one), there are known ways to fix  
> those problems...and then the problems are gone.
>
> I offered to help with this.  It's easy to fix.
>
> You literally said that you (and all other Mac users!) would rather  
> complain about Word than fix it.  I don't think that's true about  
> all Mac users.  And, I wonder about anyone who would rather  
> complain instead of get their work done...
>
> Folks here responded by saying that I'm trying to tell all Mac  
> users to use Microsoft products, and that I'm trying to speak for  
> all Mac users.

Give it up, Randy. You are attempting a battle of wits with an un- 
armed crowd. Or at least their only weapon is "argumentum ad hominem"