The Mac Night Owl: ‘Do you really need Microsoft Office?’
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
May 16, 2008 at 5:22am
On today’s commentary, Gene “Mac Night Owl” Steinberg asks, “Do you really need Microsoft Office?”
“When I first started writing computer books in 1994, I remember being asked whether I had a copy of Word installed on my Mac?” he says. “You see, as with most publishers then and now, they rely heavily on Word’s Track Changes feature to monitor the editorial production process from the original manuscript to the final version that is used to generate the printed pages.
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