The director of the accounts department preferred 123 for Windows as he already knew all the keyboard shortcuts/macros, but the office suite was significantly cheaper to roll out across the company - pretty much the price of either a 123 or word perfect licence, so that was what swung it in our firm rather than all this airy fairy functionality and ease of use stuff which we'd like to think is so important.

15+ years later I still would rather use Threads than Outlook though, it was so much easier to follow a group discussion.

Or you could just use your mobey?

For road travel if you have an android you can get a handlebar mount for under a tenner and then a copy of copilot, that found routes for me I didn't know, even lanes within a mile of my front door.

Isn't it potentially going to bugger up your eyesight a little?

People bang on about us looking at monitors for hours at a time, isn't that effect magnified by looking at a fixed focal point just a few inches away?

I'm genuinely interested to know.

Must stop reading these comment threads

You get a slight sense of deja vu as the tennis ball bounces backwards and forwards.

Let's hope some of this turmoil across the world wipes us all out, to stop you all banging on like a bunch of old women :)

Erm...

None of the non-techy facebook users I know are users of the alternatives Franklin suggests and nor were m/any of them users of myspace that JP mentioned.

I think you both underestimate its reach and the percentage of folks who are on it, I know there's only a minority of my friends or family who aren't on it and that's pretty unprecedented.

Personally I couldn't care whose ads I have to ignore, as long as they're not so intrusive that I can ignore them :)

Didn't know you before Ron and very sorry to hear that you've passed.

Very sad indeed. I loved my little Matchbox Europa as a child.

@boltar

"Win2000 onwards were ok , but NT 3.11 and 3.5* were lame dogs and should never have been released. "

A pedant writes - you seem to be mixing up your history of NT and WFW. And to be honest I'm disappointed in the other readers that I had to emerge from lurking just to point this out. Clearly they are very grief stricken.

NT 3.1, 3.5, 3.51, 4. We got all of them to work pretty much ok.

I think the last one we even tested on a Multia, which was intended to be Digital's Alpha workstation to replace all the PC desktops, but with deployment tools and the like. I think application compatibility and the cost of the machines gave them a big hurdle to overcome.