I booted up Word for the one thing it’s good at — writing resumes — and when I went to save my file, I was once again baffled by the ‘save’ icon in the upper left corner. It’s a goddam Zip disk. Still. What year is it, Word? 1998, maybe? Are people still using these quarter-gigabyte wonders to save all their precious files? Even as 80GB iPods and thumbdrives and CD-Rs abound, the ubiquitous icon for saveability is still the 250MB Iomega Zip disk??
Even the idea of removable storage is so outdated I’m guessing Microsoft still hasn’t gotten through ripping off ideas from the original Macintosh. Speaking of old things, that perennial burn on Microsoft. Yeah, they steal from Apple. I went there.
2 replies on “Word, what year is it?”
Don’t you think it’s a little rich to pick apart the UI specifics of a program that’s over four years old and which already has a successor on the market? Surely the just-released Word 2008 corrects this anachronism.
Oh.
Is Word going backwards? Even money Office 2009 shows a damned punchcard.