Microsoft Word needs an education
We’ve been working hard over the last couple of weeks to produce a plan for User Generated Content that the Telegraph can implement. We’ve done this is an agile fashion by using Basecamp to create a Writeboard for each section of the document and then allowing stakeholders to review each one of them as they emerge from our brains.
This has worked really well because we’ve been able to use Basecamp’s built-in versioning for Writeboards to show the progression of each section, as well as share the outline of the document itself by uploading it as a file.
On Wednesday last week we finally started to bring everything together into a Word document, and it became very obvious that Word’s dictionary is a long way behind the language. It doesn’t know about iPods, blogs, wikis, del.icio.us, trackbacks, pingbacks, Digg, podcasts, and many many more.
Some of these terms are more recent, granted, but many of them have been around for ages. Of that list, the built in Apple spell-checker has only complained about three words.
Further proof, if any were needed, that Macs are way cooler than PCs.
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