Bill Gates no longer world's richest man

[ThirdMarioBro]

Originally Posted by Peanut

I never f*cking get this. Am I the only one who's smart enough to not break Windows or something? Vista or otherwise. The only times I ever have any kind of problems is when I'm dealing with shady sh*t on my PC. Other than that, I never have a hook with Microsoft products.

You're not alone. I've never had a major problem with Windows that didn't result from something I caused. I'll take Microsoft software over Apple's crap any day of the week.

Now, Xbox 3Sh*tty on the other hand...

[iris]

Originally Posted by JameO

Interesting, although spreadsheet software is hard to figure out from just picking it up anyways so you have to know it pretty good to achieve what you want, but interesting. Not attacking you but what do you use in replace of it? Because all the software I have used is almost the same setup as Excel.

We don't have an alternative spreadsheet program. We just live with Excel and make sure to monitor things (like this and this, etc). It's good enough as a matrix calc program. But we often use just a text file format for transporting data (and that's often the way it comes out of the analysis equipment). I'd much rather store data in text files than Excel files because MS has compatibility issues from version to version. For advanced data manipulation, we use JMP, SAS, or some other stats software. We use something else to make graphs as well.

[JameO]

Interesting, I did not know that. I personally stay away from Office 2007 merely because I think it's menu system for Word is way to vista-ish, and I hate the menu button that drops down and has everything all in one, and that you have to click the save, then to click save as., way too bubbly for me. And also ever since my Office 2003 subscription ran out, I just went with open source just because it gets the job done just like office, sometimes better, and it's not worth paying for.