Deja Vu (Endnote and Word 2004)
The majority of the energy I’ve put into open source bibliographic tools and standards over the past two years is a direct consequence of being frustrated with Word vX and its bibliographic companion Endnote. Why was I angry with Endnote producer ISI Researchsoft, in particular? Because Endnote 6 was:
- very late
- added no compelling features, and removed others
- did not initially work with Panther
So … a year later they release what is basically a bug-fix as a full paid upgrade, and guess what? It doesn’t work with the new Office 2004 release!
The is exactly the sort of reason the free software movement exists to begin with!
Update: Official comment (by way of MacFixIt) from ISI:
Due to changes introduced by Microsoft in the newly released Office 2004 for Mac OSX, EndNote’s Cite While You Write (CWYW) tools are not currently compatible with Word 2004…. At this time there are no plans to make EndNote 7 or older versions compatible with Word 2004.
The arrogance of this company is absolutely unbelievable!
