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OK. I couldn't pass this up.
You know that Microsoft Office update that is supposed to be coming out in late May or early June, that's supposedly fixing 1000 bugs? No, well then go here.
Now this is exactly what I think:
Wow, you can't put it any better than that! I don't care if it's the Mac BU or not. It's Microsoft and only Microsoft can pull this off.
You know that Microsoft Office update that is supposed to be coming out in late May or early June, that's supposedly fixing 1000 bugs? No, well then go here.
Now this is exactly what I think:
Originally from As the Apple Turns
Now, you can choose to interpret that information in a stunningly glass-half-full manner, e.g. "Wow, Microsoft must be super-good at programming to fix all those bugs, plus they must really like me to be giving me this update for free." Our own interpretation is slightly less Pollyanna in tone: "Wow, Microsoft must be super-sloppy to release a product with that many bugs in the first place, and the very fact that people are freaking out because this $500 software package whose bug count runs upwards of four digits might disappear someday is the very definition of the word 'monopoly.' [emphasis added]" C'mon, any company that didn't wield monopoly power would be laughed out of business overnight if it tried to charge half a grand for a suite of office productivity applications so full of bugs it qualifies as a bona fide ecosystem.
Wow, you can't put it any better than that! I don't care if it's the Mac BU or not. It's Microsoft and only Microsoft can pull this off.