Mathieu Tozer's Dev Blog

A thought that keeps coming to mind:
What if more than one person in the house uses a computer? And they both want to use Words to learn a language, let's say English. Let's hypothesise.

We have Hiroshi, who is learning English. There's 1 Mac in the house. Hiroshi's sister sees how much Hiroshi has improved his English, and wants to use the software too.

She has two options, depending on whether the software handles multiple users. If it doesn't, then she is going to have to sign into her own account on the Mac. But what are the chances of her having her own account on that computer?

Would it not be better to ask who the user is when the program launches the first time, and then when Hiroshi's sister comes around, she can go to the menu and ask to 'add new user' and away she goes. She could alternatively open the program in her own userspace as well.

So there you have it. The reasoning and decision made. Words will have support for multiple users, so that non-tech savvy families can still use the software.