Usability
S. Ketharaman - February 15, 2004

Introduction

There have been several reasons given over the years to explain the success of Microsoft's software products. Rarely has usability featured in these discussions. Many of us would recall how painful it was to draw a table in WordStar or WordPerfect. Microsoft Word made it simple, intuitive and fun to draw tables. The same goes for text formatting, mail merge, envelope printing, and so on...