These Times They are really changing (there really is a free lunch right now)
Microsoft Word is dying. It is dying in personal, educational, and online business computing (it will take longer in the established business realm). In education, young Turk's are moving us to an online world of Unix (OS X /Linux). In this world the cost of the software to run the computer, whether it's a server or a person's computer, is virtually free–and it doesn't use Microsoft. And you don't need Microsoft Office, especially Word. Why? Because application software, such as Microsoft Office, is virtually free on Linux or OS X (I can get iLife and iWorks for $78). It doesn't use Microsoft. (School administrators take note; are you using or moving to Linux or OS X?) But Word is dying regardless of low cost or free alternatives. Word, and really all of Microsoft (except server stuff), are dying because Web 2.0 is killing it. ( Check out this article by the Al Gore of Web 2.0 for a really interesting and thought-provoking article generating a vocabul...