__/ [ AB ] on Saturday 19 May 2007 00:11 \__
> On 2007-05-18, nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> claimed:
>><Quote>
>> ...But I forgot to factor in the ubiquity of human error, and of
>> Microsoft Word. It turns out the IT era really is different, after
>> all. It took my 8-year-old son just a few seconds to shake loose some
>> hidden history from within the official transcript of the CPA....
>></Quote>
>>
>>
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/05/18/cpa_documents/?source=whitelist
>>
>> I don't know how Openoffice handles this---I just know that whenever I
>> open a .doc file in OpenOffice and then save it, its size shinks by a
>> factor of 4. No change in the document I can see.
>
> It will do the same if you save it as ,rtf, close out (Bad)Word, open
> the .rtf again with (Dirty)Word and save it as .doc. Though the result
> will still be larger than the same file saved by OOo.
>
> All of the undo crap is there so MS can spy on users if they're dumb
> enough to send the crash reports to MICROS~1. As a side bonus anything
> gleaned can be used for blackmail or to undercut bids or other things
> done during contract negotiations.
Apologists would argues that it's accidental, that it's nothing but a
conspiracy theory, but we all know (or should know by now) that Microsoft is
holding secret meetings with the bodies mentioned by [H]omer. The press does
not cover these, but some blogs do. Here's Microsoft flirting with the RIAA:
Music industry meeting could change the Zune
,----[ Quote ]
| Bryan Lee, corporate vice present for Microsoft's entertainment
| business, told me today that the meeting was set up as part of the
| deal struck between Microsoft and music business honchos, who are
| always wary of piracy... The meeting was supposed to take place "some
| time after the holidays," he said. It also talks about the future
| of the zune.
`----
http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2007/01/music_industry_meeting_could_change_the_zune.html
Later on (or just around this time), a Zune/iPod 'tax' was introduced.
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