MicrosoftAs a freelancer, I must stay most current so I can handle whatever my publishing-house clients throw at me. The pandemic has only accelerated the digitization of workflow. But authors aren't expected to match their publisher's platform. The publishers won't pay for it. And we editors shouldn't be doing tech support for authors any more than we should be doing their taxes. It's hard enough getting the talent to follow standards other than the technical.
In-house editors, now scattered into working in their own homes, often on their own gear, may struggle to keep up with their own department's uniformity of platform, too.
Now that I'm squinting at my copy thanks to "modern commenting" eating up my 14" display's real estate, I look forward to Microsoft sending me a check for a larger, harder-to-lug-around laptop in the name of "workplace collaboration" that seems like the fever dream of an HR newbie.
