Office 2004 SP1 - What did it Fix??

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Hi Pierre,


I haven't seen you in the group in a while (or maybe I missed your
posts).

As usual, we have MVPs making excuses for Microsoft whenever the
company fails to meet expectations.

Come on Pierre... You seem to have a short memory on this one. Do you
think MVPs always support everything MS does ?? None of us ever
criticize bugs or lack of functions ??
I distinctively remember Paul posting in the groups about several other
serious issues or shortcomings. Give him some credit.


[...]

The fact that this release doesn't fix an issue as obvious as the one
with Postscript fonts and the non-breaking space:

http://www.latext.com/pm/betalogue/P1246

is unacceptable. The fact that it doesn't fix the crash triggered by
utilities such as Spell Catcher or TypeIt4Me:

http://www.latext.com/pm/comments/1298_0_1_0_C/

is just bad.

Well I'm not affected by these bugs. I could as well say these are
trivial to me and I'd rather see other issues taken care of before
these. The importance you give to these issues is biased by the fact
that they affect you, isn't it ??
I'd much rather see riht to left support and have an Office Update that
doesn't trash my installation of Office (that's what the French Office X
10.1.6 updater does).
Resources are not unlimited and bug fixes as well as implementation of
new features need to be prioritized...

Threat of
litigation my eye. The US department of justice itself wasn't able to
bring MS to justice. It's not likely that any group of users big or
small ever will.

:-> again I see things in a different angle... If I quite remember, the
US department of justice failed but the European court succeeded...

You are of course entitled to your own opinion Pierre, but please don't
expect everybody to see everything the same way you do. People have
different backgrounds and are differently affected by the various
problems not yet resolved in Office.

Corentin

 

[Phillip M. Jones, CE.T.]

Hi Pierre,


I haven't seen you in the group in a while (or maybe I missed your
posts).

As usual, we have MVPs making excuses for Microsoft whenever the
company fails to meet expectations.

Come on Pierre... You seem to have a short memory on this one. Do you
think MVPs always support everything MS does ?? None of us ever
criticize bugs or lack of functions ??
I distinctively remember Paul posting in the groups about several other
serious issues or shortcomings. Give him some credit.


[...]

The fact that this release doesn't fix an issue as obvious as the one
with Postscript fonts and the non-breaking space:

http://www.latext.com/pm/betalogue/P1246

is unacceptable. The fact that it doesn't fix the crash triggered by
utilities such as Spell Catcher or TypeIt4Me:

I use TypeIt4Me all the time with no problems with Office2004
Do you have the latest version?

Well I'm not affected by these bugs. I could as well say these are
trivial to me and I'd rather see other issues taken care of before
these. The importance you give to these issues is biased by the fact
that they affect you, isn't it ??
I'd much rather see riht to left support and have an Office Update that
doesn't trash my installation of Office (that's what the French Office X
10.1.6 updater does).
Resources are not unlimited and bug fixes as well as implementation of
new features need to be prioritized...




:-> again I see things in a different angle... If I quite remember, the
US department of justice failed but the European court succeeded...

You are of course entitled to your own opinion Pierre, but please don't
expect everybody to see everything the same way you do. People have
different backgrounds and are differently affected by the various
problems not yet resolved in Office.

Corentin

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[dano]

For God's sake, Phillip, why don't you use a spell-checker? Your spelling,
or typing, is atrocious. My typing is also atrocious, but the Entourage
spell-checker, set to intervene on send, ensures that 95% of it gets fixed.
Look at your next sentence - it's unreadable.

The problems in Phillip's typing are due to the notorious Abobe
TypeMunger(R) v6.0 plug-in componeny of PDFmurker. This application is
known to interfur with keyboard entries on MAC OS X, an d especially
with MT-Newswhacker, Morzilla and Macrosfot En'rage.

There is a fix awailable on the usual burgfix websites. Any luser so
effected shuld go to the website and download the pitch. ;-)

 

[Clive Huggan]

The problems in Phillip's typing are due to the notorious Abobe
TypeMunger(R) v6.0 plug-in componeny of PDFmurker. This application is
known to interfur with keyboard entries on MAC OS X, an d especially
with MT-Newswhacker, Morzilla and Macrosfot En'rage.

There is a fix awailable on the usual burgfix websites. Any luser so
effected shuld go to the website and download the pitch. ;-)

Ho-ho-ho, Dano! A darned good long belly-laugh to start off the week!
Phillip will enjoy that one!

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is at least 5 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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