Report: Companies Use Word Out of Habit, Not Necessity
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 16th Jan 2009 08:45 UTC, submitted by stonyandcher
Features, Office Yesterday we ran a story on how educational institutions defaulting to Microsoft Office may stifle some people who do not own a copy of Office or Windows. A Forrester Research report now states the bloody obvious by claiming that organisations stick with Microsoft Word not out of necessity, but out of habit.
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RE: no i am deadly serious...
by Dave_K on Sun 18th Jan 2009 20:25 UTC in reply to "no i am deadly serious..."
Dave_K
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2005-11-16

You are obviously not old enough to remember the days before computerised offices (I am). In fact they ran far more efficiently than most modern offices. People were far more relaxed, less stressed and much more efficient than today.


Not only am I old enough to remember non computerised offices, I've been involved in the transition of two large organisations to a computerised system.

I've directly seen how much time, effort and money can be saved with a well designed computer system. As well as the new services it's possible to offer customers, such as providing up to the minute information over the telephone thanks to a database system. Organisations didn't switch to computers on a whim, but out of a need to compete with those who already had the benefit of them.

In my experience the relaxed and efficient manual offices you describe never existed. They had just as much stress, while requiring twice as many staff to get the same job done. You're clearly looking back with rose tinted glasses.

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