As a writer I spend at least eight hours per day on the computer, and a good portion of that is wasted on wrestling with MS Word. Annoyances like:
- chasing the pointer as it arbitrarily jumps around the page;
- deleting, and then retyping the misplaced copy that results (i.e. words in another line or paragraph);
- when I press the shift key, Word frequently block-formats lines or partial paragraphs so that the next keystroke deletes these blocks;
- undoing the above action;
- wrestling to undo the alternate characters (the blue ones on the keypad) that arbitrarily appear from time to time;
- trying to maintain my trend of thought while doing all this unnecessary manipulation;
Regarding Microsoft in general:
- Before I cancelled the automatic updates, Windows would suddenly reboot without warning (wiping out whatever I hadn’t saved), and to add insult to injury it would then send a pop-up to say that, “Windows has just updated your computer.” No kidding!
- A while back I purchased an update from Word 2007 to 2010 ($160), thinking it had remedied the above-listed glitches, but to my utter chagrin it hadn’t. Moreover, when I saved my unfinished manuscript to 2010 it deleted the spaces between words on over 200 pages – (130,000 words)!
So why do I not complain directly to Microsoft? Believe me I would love to, but Microcrap has made it virtually impossible to contact them in the ordinary way. So their public relations is no better than their crappy programs
In short, Microcrap is the best advertisement for Macintosh there is, and I’m sold on switching with my next computer purchase.
I hate Microsoft 
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