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

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