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Do users change their settings?

Customization. [Thanks to Yaniv Sarig, who translated this post into Hebrew. ] Back in the early days of PC computing, we were interested in how people used all those options, controls, and settings that software designers put into their applications. How much do users customize their applications? We embarked on a little experiment. We asked a ton of people to send us their settings file for Microsoft Word.

By Jared Spool, 14 September 2011

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