End of an Era: Microsoft Word Now Flagging Two Spaces After Period as an Error

I add two spaces after a period because it makes text considerably easier to read.

This is not the point however. What gives these bastards at Microsoft the prerogative to dictate how our language is displayed or written down? After all, they're just bloody undisciplined programmers, so what the hell do they know about language and the ergonomics of how the brain interprets printed text anyway? Given, Microsoft's decades-long lineage of ergonomic cock-ups, the answer is clearly SFA.

Moreover, when did we give these tech giants, Microsoft, et al a mandate to unilaterally push social change (which they've always reckoned is their god-given right to do so)? On whose authority or Act of Congress gives them this right? Right, there is none!

I notice another item on Hacker News today which suggests software programmers should be licensed. Now that's a really brilliant idea—if these bastards then step out of line then they'll lose their livelihoods.

What a champion idea, we might then start getting software that's actually functional and comparatively bug-free.

What a change that would be.

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P.S.: The change from double to spaces will never be a problem for me, the last time I was prepared to give Microsoft money for Office was for Office 2003. It'd be lunacy for me to pay money for a downgrade given that my 2003 version already provides the option for BOTH single or double spaces.

Never will I ever upgrade it again!

Incidentally, as mentioned above, the elimination of this long-standing option in Office is another classic instance of Microsoft's authoritarian 'pushing' change.