One of the people I asked to read a draft of the new essay I'm writing is a lawyer. He replied with a redlined version of it.
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In 2008 I spent a month writing a web-based system for managing all YC's funding documents. With one click you could get an instance of the latest docs, prepopulated with all the startup's info from our database. The lawyers quietly ignored it and kept using Microsoft Word.
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I never realized it till now, but this means I too am among the victims of the Microsoft monopoly. That's sort of amusing.
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I think it could be because Lawyers trust the source material more than the extracted data. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It could even be PDF documents.
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I guess it's rather lawyers have their own read-through templates neatly organized into their own folder structures. They know where and what to take as also they know every word in their versions. As opposed to downloading a document they need to read word by word from scratch.
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All those back and forth with everything lawyer related is always Microsoft Word with comments and version control send around via email. It's mind-boggling that this hasn't been disrupted years ago, but the inertia in the lawyer world must be a force to be reckoned with.
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It's not necessarily inertia as it is full-system integration. Multi-app Office integration is crucial for law firms, everything needs to sync perfectly : Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote etc. And to be honest : the Reviewing and Sharing is excellent in Office365. Why change?
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Did you have an automatic diff (redline) functionality? Did you have a version history? Was there approval / signing functionality indicating some human checked the result for correctness?
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On the other hand, the near total dominance of Microsofts terrible text editor has given rise to thousands of wonderful editor projects, of which hundreds culminated into successful software companies of various kinds.
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Resistance to change is the biggest ally of giant tech firms After using the same tool for a while, your brain rewires itself to do it automatically That's why you keep going back to Facebook even if nothing interests you there. It's also why YC's lawyers skipped Paul's tool
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We all are.
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Did you ask why?
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