![]() ![]() That basically meant getting rid of Internet Explorer (by then version 5, which I didn’t like anyway) and Outlook Express, along with all the shared library junk they had dropped into my System Folder. However, I continued to use Internet Explorer and even experimented a bit with Outlook Express for email, although I never really liked its multi-pane interface, and I hated the way it dumps all archived messages into one, big, proprietary, and too easily corruptible file – an affliction that still pertains to users of current versions of Outlook and Entourage.įor a while, I considered IE 4.5 to be the least objectionable Mac browser – the best of a scurvy lot at the time – but once Netscape 4.5 was released and the iCab betas became stable, I happily switched to them and never looked back.Īnd in the fall of 2000, disgusted by what had been revealed in testimony at the Microsoft antitrust trial and alarmed at Microsoft’s increasingly aggressive designs on controlling the Internet, I decided to purge all Microsoft software, save for my ancient copy of Word 5.1, from my hard drive. Nisus was, well, nicer, and it is a better text editor then Word, although less powerful and versatile for near-DTP formatting and the like. ![]() I didn’t like Word 6, and I thought Word 98 was just too ponderously bloated. I switched from Word 5.1 to Nisus Writer for word processing in 1998. I guess there are some minor incompatibilities with certain features under OS 9, and patches are available to deal with them, but I’ve never bothered to follow them up since all I use Word 5.1 for these days is for opening archived documents, occasionally producing a Word formatted document for compatibility purposes, and on the rare occasion these days that I print anything, Word 5.1 still talks to my old ImageWriter II printer more slickly and conveniently than any other application. ![]() I still have my registered copy of Word 5.1, and it still works with OS 9.1 and 9.2. Indeed, for half of my decade as a Mac user, Microsoft Word (first version 4, then version 5.1) was the application I used most in those pre-Internet years. The MacUpdate site also provides user reviews of the software and recommended alternatives for the software.I didn’t always shun Microsoft software. MacUpdate links to the specific product page at the developer's web site, so it is easy to check whether there is a trial download. It is worth checking the links to the MacUpdate site and the developer's web page since a number of Mac apps that are in the Mac App store may have trial versions that you can access using these links. According to the developer's site description, the Express version does not have support for features such as Table of Contents, Indexing, Cross References, Bookmarks, Track Changes, Comments, Watermarks, Export to ePub, and Export to. You can go to the developer's web site and download 15-day free trial versions of both Nisus Writer Pro and Nisus Writer Express to check accessibility and also compare the feature sets for yourself.
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