Post #1680773
2026-04-25 15:13 UTC
Wow congratulations for dusting off the 36 year old marketing material! I'm not sure features in software respect 36 year statutes of limitation though. I suspect it no longer lives up to this claim. At least in my experience it doesn't, unless you count only in print preview but not in actual editing.
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@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2026-04-25 15:32
>I don't believe Word ever claimed to be WYSIWYG. Key word: ever It's *always* been a WYSIWYG - hell, one could argue it popularized the term.
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@null@piefed.nullspace.lol 2026-04-25 16:10
Lol the double-down is always funny.
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@egrets@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 15:20
Hah, just a quick search for the image, but the point is that your average word processor is WYSIWYG -- so much so that the phrase has fallen out of fashion, because any other concept (e.g. a TeX client like LaTeX) is foreign to your typical user. You edit the formatted document directly, and it'll always look the same on screen and print as it did at the point of edit. Granted you can enable alternate views in MS Word, like draft layout or web layout, but they're not the default.