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  • Re: Favorite version of Office?

    From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to phigan on Sun Jul 12 09:21:51 2026
    Re: Re: Favorite version of Office?
    By: phigan to Nook8081 on Thu Jul 09 2026 11:13 am

    I actually liked super old Word for old old MacOS. Like System 6 or 7. There was no ribbon. I don't think there were any buttons at all. Then the next version they started having one row of buttons.

    MacWrite FTW!

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to phigan on Sun Jul 12 09:23:15 2026
    Re: Re: Favorite version of Office?
    By: phigan to Nook8081 on Thu Jul 09 2026 11:16 am

    Hm, is it sad that I read/write email the same way today as I did in the 2000s? Mutt and vi. Although, I forget when it was that I switched from elm to mutt. Probably a little bit before that.

    No, but muscle memory is key. On my tilde, I'm reading email and news using ALPINE and NANO, and it's like Eudora and gmail never happened.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Nook8081 on Sun Jul 12 09:25:25 2026
    Nook8081 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Ooo, that's intresting. I have always wondered about email in the
    2000's.

    Lots of on-premise Microsoft Exchange servers. 16GB data store limits
    for your entire company unless you sprung for the enterprise edition.
    Long periods of database maintenance on the weekends, and all running
    on Windows Server 2000. Stable, as Windows server OSes went, but it was
    still a 23/6 operation.

    Occasionally, you'd need to connect to an environment running Lotus
    Notes for no reason except to justify having a team of people writing
    customizations for Notes because someone decided to write some workflow
    in Notes.

    The occasional WordPerfect Office environment, similarly customized and
    broken.

    Then, lots of people running on Solaris and linux boxes, most likely
    running UW IMAP or Courier IMAP, NNTP and LDAP. That combination worked
    well, and you could make Outlook play nice with it for most things.

    Or, just run Netscape Communicator, I don't think Thunderbird came out
    until later.



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  • From Utopian Galt@VERT to Nook8081 on Sun Jul 12 13:33:33 2026
    Re: Favorite version of Office?
    By: Nook8081 to DOVE-Net.General on Thu Jul 02 2026 12:54 am

    So for you, what's your favorite version of Office, and feel free to share your writing routine. Im curious! And if you don't use Office, feel free to share whatever it is you use! Im super curious about you guys.
    I prefer older versions, but the other problem is the threat of macro viruses and other vectors which leads us to be slaves for the latest versions.

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