On 22-9-2010 22:17, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> On 22/09/2010 07:41 PM, Mike Raiford wrote:
>> On 9/22/2010 2:59 AM, Invisible wrote:
>>
>>> I especially love the way that MS Word is specifically designed to crash
>>> most often WHILE SAVING YOUR WORK!
>>
>> Oh. That's nothing. MS Word will silently corrupt your document while
>> saving, and keep that corruption intact the whole time, keeping it
>> hidden until its time to reload the file (e.g. after Word crashed) Then
>> all hell breaks loose and you wind up losing days worth of work on a
>> document... Documenting APIs before using doc-comments to create help
>> files sucked. ;)
>
> Interestingly, I've seen a Word document which crashes Word every time
> you touch it, yet it opens just fine in OpenOffice. Resave it and it
> works perfectly in Word again.
>
> Interesting that a group of hackers who don't even have access to the
> spec managed to implement it better than the people who invented it, eh?
> :-P
>
You are assuming that there are no documents that crash in OO while 
opening nicely in Word. Unless you can show that such cases do not exist 
I will simply assume that both implementations are independent and have 
a (hopefully) disjunct set of bugs.

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