Microsoft: Word 2007 crashes are a feature, not bug
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| Crashes in Microsoft Word 2007 are designed to improve security,
| says Microsoft
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;377659799
Recent "it's a feature, not a bug" examples:
Working around IE7s prompt bug, er feature
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| So while every other browser on the planet can handle javascript
| prompts -- and have done so, pretty much since javascript was
| first stuffed inside the browser -- Microsoft didn't have the
| resources to deal with it and so, effectively, disabled it.
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| [...]
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| This stops javascript from continuing until the prompt box is
| addressed, then and only then will the alert box appear. The
| modality of the prompt box prevents javascript from moving on
| until the user has performed some action on the box.
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http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Working_around_IE7s_prompt_bug,_er_feature
The Contradictory State of OOXML
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| Other contradictions would seem to be impossible to resolve given the
| nature of OOXML itself, the stated purpose of which is to describe a
| single vendor's product -- bugs and all.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070117145745854
A most ingenious paradox: make 1900 a leap year?
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| I don't believe there's been enough discussion of the weaknesses
| gradually being uncovered in Microsoft's 6,000-page dump of Office
| behavior, which they are trying to call a standard.
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| To help Office to become a standard, one adaptation governments
| could make would be to retroactively declare 1900 a leap year.
| This would require updates to history books and other documents
| (for instance, V-E day would change to May 7, and the World
| Trade Center attacks would have taken place on September 10)
| but I'd like to see a cost comparison with the alternative that
| businesses dread: migrating to open document formats.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/a_most_ingenious_paradox_make.html
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