It’s now three months since you wrote your last status message.Photoshop free alternative macos. A more precise date by which to expect release of even a beta version of a OpenOffice (or Nisus, or Mellel, or…) driver would be a good start. I think that’s a bad choice for both of us, and I think it belies a great deal of the spirit and much of the explicit language you use to tout the power and utility of EndNote. I know you cannot create a separate price structure depending on how much of the product a user can exploit, so I am left with the choice of spending more for a crippled product, or waiting until you find the resources and motivation to speed along the development cycle. I would be paying for the full utility of X4 with the cost of the upgrade, and I would be denied a significant piece of that utility. There are better word processors for my purposes than Word… I resent that you turn to the needs of users like myself last.
It’s a question of quality and product design. The “new” version apparently will not be released until well into 2011, and then I will still avoid it (though I am likely to upgrade, as the utility for legacy documents justifies the small investment). I already own MS Office for Mac in its current version. There is nothing standard about Microsoft Word except for its ubiquity. Surely you can make faster progress than you have demonstrated to allow users like me (who are numerous, especially in certain disciplines) use your product most productively with alternative workflow strategies than the so-called de facto “standard” I stopped using Word years ago and I find it a major defect in any product that its use, as a general or generic capability for a task set, is restricted to specific proprietary products from third parties (in this case, two of the largest vendors in this market: Microsoft and Apple). One impediment for me in doing so is the dilatory effort at creating this plug-in or driver for OpenOffice, or any other word processor (other than Apple’s product) than Microsoft Word. I just received your email for upgrading to X4 (from X3 in my case).
I’ve been a licensed user of EndNote since v.2
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