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Microsoft Word 5.0 SUCKS!!!! sort of.

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From: william bradley ward
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1992 05:27
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What the #$%! is wrong with the programmers at Microsoft?!  I've been running
Word 5.0 for a while now and have noticed how sluggish it is. (I run a IIsi)
I'm talking not only sluggish when running, but on how it slows the rest of
the system down too.  Today I ran the app "CycleSpy" to see the percentage
of process power it took and was amazed at the constant 95-100% of process
power MS Word 5.0 took!  This was even when it was hidden in the background
with no documents open!  How could anyone program a piece of code that was
so greedy.  It is a word processor!  When I render for days with StrataVision
3d, it doesn't use that much power.  How much system time does a word processor
need while in the background?  I can't think of anything other than periodicaly
checking for an activate event or something.  Ahhhhh!  I don't think I could
write such an inefficient, greedy piece of code if I tried!  I wish Microsoft
would realize that a mac is capable of multiple programs running concurrently.
Word for Windows (ack!) may be able to get away with hogging all power, but on
a mac this is a very bad thing!

Anybody else notice this?  It really pisses me off!  Too bad Microsoft puts
out otherwise half-way decent software. :)

Brad
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From: wardw@CS.ColoState.EDU (william bradley ward)
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Subject: Microsoft Word 5.0 SUCKS!!!! sort of.
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Date: 2 Aug 92 05:27:54 GMT
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