There's a fundamental question that illustrates well the problems with a corporate culture that enables the free exchange of complex documents and other files via e-mail: How do you know you know the source of the e-mail?

E-mail is so trivially spoofed that an "unknown source" can often impersona...

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Aside from being ridden - as usual with Micro$oft products - with nasty bugs, Word is largely unneded in many situations.

Do we really need it in the first place?

Do we need a behemoth word processor, overly stuffed-with-features-that-we-won't-use, using a proprietary data format, and producing ri...

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