{"id":6932,"date":"2017-07-20T15:22:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T15:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6932"},"modified":"2017-07-10T15:24:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:24:14","slug":"linked-why-are-you-still-using-microsoft-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/07\/20\/linked-why-are-you-still-using-microsoft-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Why Are You Still Using Microsoft Word?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2812,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/gizmodo.com\\\/why-are-you-still-using-microsoft-word-1794219158&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20230423073446\\\/https:\\\/\\\/gizmodo.com\\\/why-are-you-still-using-microsoft-word-1794219158&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 01:50:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-31 21:05:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-04 05:22:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-12 01:29:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-17 02:10:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 13:38:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 15:04:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 16:44:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 21:49:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 12:26:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 07:29:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 09:18:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 21:41:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 16:41:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 16:41:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/why-are-you-still-using-microsoft-word-1794219158\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Gizmodo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>So you\u2019re still using Microsoft Word. Seems like an odd decision in the year 2017, but I didn\u2019t come here to judge. I\u2019m legitimately curious why some people continue to pump their money into the MS Office Suite, despite mounting evidence that the software offers shitty security and a historically terrible user experience. So why bother?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I sat perplexed reading this article and then realized that millennial who never went to journalism school or any school at all or work a business job are now responsible for writing articles on major websites on the Internet and they\u2019re the ones championing working from a tablet and things like file-systems and word processing are foreign things to them.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the comments, everyone unanimously agrees that this article was a waste of space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Gizmodo: So you\u2019re still using Microsoft Word. Seems like an odd decision in the year 2017, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-07-20T15:23:13Z","apple_news_api_id":"1477a070-a858-4847-a57a-7e92e3fbda74","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-07-20T15:23:16Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AFHegcKhYSEelen6S4_vadA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/a6dbab72-c794-3987-8514-c419907b32a3"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1NO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6387,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/11\/28\/linked-a-brief-history-of-celebrities-using-the-notes-app-to-share-their-thoughts-with-the-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":6932,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;A Brief History of Celebrities Using the Notes App to Share Their Thoughts With the World&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"November 28, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Jezebel: Email & Microsoft Word solved this issue a long time ago. 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