[Hidden-tech] Microsoft Office suite vs. other options

[Duane Dale]

Fixing a typo...

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Duane Dale <duane.dale at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think my comment toward the end of the PC > iMac conversion thread got
> booted as off-topic.
> HAVING bothered to concoct a response I wanted to share, here it is under a
> fresh Subject:
>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Roger Williams <roger at qux.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> ...Naw, in my book Microsoft Word (tied with Powerpoint) takes the prize
>>> as the
>>>
>>> most atrocious application ever to be inflicted upon the neophyte
>>> business
>>> community.  ...
>>>
>>
>> Someone who takes on PowerPoint with a vengeance is Edward Tufte. He's the
>> author of several wonderful books on the visual presentation of information.
>> In one of them he explores the Challenger space shuttle disaster,
>> considering how O-ring temperature behavior was analyzed, and how it might
>> have been viewed in ways that would have spotted the potential for aberrant
>> behavior at outlier temperatures.
>>
>> Tufte has a short booklet on PowerPoint in which he criticizes its basic
>> multi-tiered bullet-list structure. See
>> http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_pp
>>
>> If you click the link just above the image of the booklet's cover -- a
>> link labeled "PowerPoint does Rocket Science" -- you'll get a sample from
>> the book which is Tufte's analysis of the other space shuttle disaster
>> (Columbia), showing how Boeing's placement of optimistic comments within
>> top-level bullets held sway over more concerning comments hidden in the
>> lower-tier bullets (in PowerPoint slides of amazing complexity, by the way).
>>
>> Tufte is Professor Emeritus at Yale University, where he taught courses in
>> statistical evidence, information design, and interface design.  He does
>> periodic road-shows -- one-day courses in his methods, with a price that
>> includes a number of the books. Recommended.
>>
>> -- Duane Dale
>>
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