Two of the preeminent science journals - Science and Nature - are refusing to accept submissions produced in the Microsoft Office 2007 format because of incompatibilities. Science cites incompatibilities with its internal workflow software, while Nature has issues with Microsoft's inbuilt equation editor's lack of compatibility with MathML. Not ever having met a scientist who admits to using Microsoft - it's all TeX / LaTeX or for those who really must have a GUI, Star Office on a Linus box - I shouldn't imagine this to be much of a problem, but it does raise the question of why the academic enterprise is engaging with that arch-behemoth when products like Nota Bene were actually designed for academia rather than Walmart.
The relentless drive to early obsolescence of Microsoft, which sees serfs around the world continually chanting the mantra "upgrade upgrade upgrade" has fallen out of favour with the scientific community. Well, to the extent that there's ever been favour, this has now been reduced further.
Two of the preeminent science journals - Science and Nature - are refusing to accept submissions produced in the Microsoft Office 2007 format because of incompatibilities. Science cites incompatibilities with its internal workflow software, while Nature has issues with Microsoft's inbuilt equation editor's lack of compatibility with MathML. Not ever having met a scientist who admits to using Microsoft - it's all TeX / LaTeX or for those who really must have a GUI, Star Office on a Linus box - I shouldn't imagine this to be much of a problem, but it does raise the question of why the academic enterprise is engaging with that arch-behemoth when products like Nota Bene were actually designed for academia rather than Walmart.
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