Re: US Military bans HTML in emails

David J Dachtera wrote:
Bill Gunshannon wrote:
Not in the real world. Good enough doesn't cut it when someone higher
than you says, "The corporate standard is MS Word."

...until the(ir next) multi-billion-dollar outage due to malware. Then, the
higher-ups face turn-over while the workers bees burn the midnight oil to clean
up the mess.

There were some real bad incidents 3-5 years ago.

No move from Windows then.

Now the MIS departments has tightened security.

Will not happen.

If Windows and MS Office get replaced it will be with Linux and
OpenOffice. And it will be driven by cost reduction.

The world did not begin with M$ - it will not stop without it, either.
Nice thought, but not grounded in reality.

Damn, Bill, do you hear yourself?

Think for a moment: What was your desktop "computing" environment prior to, oh,
1985? ...or even Windows V3.x? (Hint #1: What famous software was touted to be
as easy as __, __, __? (Fill in the blank yourself.) Hint #2: It wasn't M$, but
did run on IBM/M$-DOS.)

...prior to 1975?

Starting to regain your perspective now?

There are no doubt that if all MS software disappeared in a second,
then other software will fill the gap.

And the relevance: none. Because all MS software will not disappear
in one second.

Even given the alternatives
I have seen no move to eliminate MS Word from places where it counts.
Like businesses and schools (who are busy creating yet another generation
that will know only one way to do business.)

...until corporate America demands downtime reductions through the non-use of
M$, or modified methods of using it. The day is coming, perhaps sooner than
anyone wants to admit.

Demands to reduce down time of word processing ??

Not in the real world.

Arne
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