On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 13:02:17 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Flaw finders lay siege to Microsoft Office
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>| For most of the summer, Microsoft's Office product teams have had little
>| time for development. Responding to a steady influx of flaws in the
>| company's Office productivity suite has occupied many of
>| Microsoft's programmers since late 2005.
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/22/bug_hunters_crawl_over_ms_office/
>
> This extensive 3-page article makes a compelling case for the use of
> OpenOffice. While both suites have flaws (MS Office compromises the whole
> O/S), it's evident that MS Office is forever fixing (expect more of the
> same), rather than evolving (cruft, useless features, UI, and icon sets
> aside).
What a stupid comment. There *IS* no product development at this stage,
that's why it's at beta 2. It's feature complete, and now it's just bug
fixing. That's how software development works.
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