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  1. Re:MS Languages and platforms a dead end on Pondering the Future of a Re-Org'd Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Ah, Jet and Access. It ended up being such a disaster (remember the SQL Server/MDAC team trying to deprecate Jet?) that the Access team forked it into ACE.

  2. Re:MS Languages and platforms a dead end on Pondering the Future of a Re-Org'd Microsoft · · Score: 1

    What is funny about VB6/VBA is that MS did the work to port VBA to 64-bit for Office 2010, but refused to create a new version of Classic VB based on it or even license it to other vendors (in fact, they stopped accepting new licensees for VBA back in mid-2007).

  3. Re:He's mistaken on Vint Cerf: Data That's Here Today May Be Gone Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    WordBasic, actually. What is fun BTW is to unblock Word 6.0/95 formats in 2010 and later and open a file with WordBasic like SCANPROT.DOT.

  4. Re:libreoffice will open it ! on Vint Cerf: Data That's Here Today May Be Gone Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Note they also sometimes drop support for old formats too:
    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59902

  5. Re:He's mistaken on Vint Cerf: Data That's Here Today May Be Gone Tomorrow · · Score: 2

    Have you tried disabling the file blocks first? At least Word for Mac 4.x and 5.x can be read this way.

  6. Re:He's mistaken on Vint Cerf: Data That's Here Today May Be Gone Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    I think the user was either using PowerPoint 4.0 for Mac or did not upgrade to Office 97 immediately.

  7. On the PowerPoint 4.0/95 converters... on Vint Cerf: Data That's Here Today May Be Gone Tomorrow · · Score: 4, Insightful

    MS removed the PowerPoint 4.0/95 converters completely with Office 2007 for Windows and later, and disabled them by default in Office 2003 SP3. And the PowerPoint 4.0 converter (but not 95) was disabled by default instead of fixed with MS09-017.

    On the Mac, they removed then even earlier, when they ported Office to Carbon.

    IMO it would be a good idea for MS to package PP4X32 and PP7X32 from PowerPoint 2003 separately, along with a utility to call the converters of course.

  8. Re:Tax Records on Vint Cerf: Data That's Here Today May Be Gone Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    If it is Word/Excel, try disabling the file blocks using the registry or in 2010 or later using the UI in the Trust Center.
    See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922849

  9. Re:No drivers for SATA in 2013? on Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 Released · · Score: 1

    Problem is that UEFI being 64-bit means that the runtime services are also 64-bit.

  10. Re:No drivers for SATA in 2013? on Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 Released · · Score: 1

    I think they will focus on porting to x86-64 first before implementing UEFI, given that most UEFI implementations are 64-bit.

  11. Re:How about open-sourcing it? on Goodbye, Lotus 1-2-3 · · Score: 1

    That is because of your distro making this decision.

  12. Re:DOS ain't done til Lotus don't run! on Goodbye, Lotus 1-2-3 · · Score: 1

    Ah, DR-DOS. I mentioned in my blog post about the OS/2 2.0 fiasco that Caldera took advantage of the fact that Win9x ran on top of DOS to continue its lawsuit against MS, and that OS/2 was designed as a full OS from the beginning.

  13. Re:America, you are doing it wrong on Larry Page: You Worry Too Much About Medical Privacy · · Score: 1

    Well, the Affordable Care Act is trying to ban pre-existing condition refusal and require everyone to have health insurance. Unfortunately, the only penalty that is constitutional according to the Supreme Court for failing to have insurance is a financial one.

  14. Re:Hypocritical coming from Google... on Sorry, Larry Page: Tech-Industry Viciousness Is Here To Stay · · Score: 1

    Personally, on this laptop, it does look more whitish the more you tilt the display to the front.

  15. Re:Hypocritical coming from Google... on Sorry, Larry Page: Tech-Industry Viciousness Is Here To Stay · · Score: 1

    The color in question is #fff8e7, BTW.

  16. Re:Well, he's not afraid his company might fire hi on Larry Page: You Worry Too Much About Medical Privacy · · Score: 1

    And they are trying to mandate everyone to have it to compensate for this ban. Unfortunately, the only consequence set out in the Act (and the only one constitutional according to the Supreme Court) is a financial penalty.

  17. Re:i like the part on Interview: John McAfee Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    To make things worse, I remember Symantec improved it's resource consumption quite dramatically in the 2008 release, leaving McAfee in the dust.

  18. Re:i like the part on Interview: John McAfee Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    So I wonder what went wrong at McAfee afterwards.

  19. Re:Remove IE? on Internet Explorer 0-day Attacks On US Nuke Workers Hit 9 Other Sites · · Score: 1

    Yea, go to Control Panel->Programs and Features->Turn Windows features on or off.

  20. Re:Hold Microsoft Responsible on Internet Explorer 0-day Attacks On US Nuke Workers Hit 9 Other Sites · · Score: 1

    The XP support ends in 2014.

  21. Re:plain shoddy, and v. others? on Internet Explorer 0-day Attacks On US Nuke Workers Hit 9 Other Sites · · Score: 2

    IE9 and later are not affected by this zero day.

  22. Re:Remove IE? on Internet Explorer 0-day Attacks On US Nuke Workers Hit 9 Other Sites · · Score: 2

    IE can be removed enough from Vista and later that it's engine is not easily used for untrusted content.

  23. Re:Great! Now fix TrueType! on Google and Adobe Contribute Open Source Rasterizer to FreeType · · Score: 1

    Vista did not introduce DirectWrite. Win7 did and they backported it to Vista in a platform update.

  24. Re:Use Firefox 1.0.3 on UK Benefits Claimants Must Use Windows XP, IE6 · · Score: 1

    I think newer versions will work, it is just not officially supported

  25. Re:Should run on Win7 on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    They actually disabled NTVDM by default but did not remove it in 32-bit version.