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Anatomy Of A Bug In Microsoft Office

Posted by michael on from the 90%-of-the-iceberg-is-underwater dept.

bender writes "An insightful look at what it is like to track down and fix a bug in Microsoft Office is available from Microsoft's Blog site."

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  1. Re:But... by 1010011010 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Uh, are you sure you're using MS-Office? Ever have any Bullet Madness? Sudden appearance of Times New Roman? Word saving files it can't later read back in (but OpenOffice can)? 1k HTML files processed into 100K HTML files by Word? Pasting text from one document into another and having the document's margins get reset? ... and that's just today!

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