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   Mitch Wagner (mitchw@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 05:20:49 JST Mitch Wagner

   I will get kicked out of the Apple nerd club for saying this: Usually, I write reports in Markdown and convert them to Word before submitting to my editors. But I’ve been writing a report in Microsoft Word today, and it’s fine. It’s easier than converting, which always needs a lot of manual fixing.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 05:20:48 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Rob Fahrni

     @fahrni @mitchw Disagree strongly: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/10/why-microsoft-word-must-die.html

     (I probably need to update that rant to add the evils of CoPilot, but life's too short. Suffice to say my publishing contract small print would put me in breach if I were to use it!)

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     Rob Fahrni (fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 05:20:49 JST Rob Fahrni

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     @mitchw Word is a great piece of software.