http://www.alandix.com/blog/2008/06/16/pain-tears-and-office-2008/ just starting ... Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:27:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.alandix.com/blog/2008/06/16/pain-tears-and-office-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-35034 Alan’s blog » the plague of bugs Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:31:39 +0000 http://www.alandix.com/blog/?p=80#comment-35034 [...] I have griped before about backward compatibility issues for Word, and in general about lack of robustness in many leading products, and to add to my woes, for the [...] [...] I have griped before about backward compatibility issues for Word, and in general about lack of robustness in many leading products, and to add to my woes, for the [...]

]]> http://www.alandix.com/blog/2008/06/16/pain-tears-and-office-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-24421 Alan’s blog » MS Office and the new digital dark age Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:26:58 +0000 http://www.alandix.com/blog/?p=80#comment-24421 [...] to discover it is yet more of the incompetence in Office 2008 that I have previously blogged about (pain, tears and office 2008).   I was trying to get a small PDF for the web and so was printing to a postscript file and then [...] [...] to discover it is yet more of the incompetence in Office 2008 that I have previously blogged about (pain, tears and office 2008).   I was trying to get a small PDF for the web and so was printing to a postscript file and then [...]

]]> http://www.alandix.com/blog/2008/06/16/pain-tears-and-office-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-23013 Alan’s blog » Backwards compatibility on the web Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:46:48 +0000 http://www.alandix.com/blog/?p=80#comment-23013 [...] web, and elsewhere, we are so bad at being backward compatible … and I recall my own ‘pain and tears‘ struggling with broken backward compatibility in office [...] [...] web, and elsewhere, we are so bad at being backward compatible … and I recall my own ‘pain and tears‘ struggling with broken backward compatibility in office [...]

]]> http://www.alandix.com/blog/2008/06/16/pain-tears-and-office-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-13381 Alan’s blog » why software need never hang Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:54:22 +0000 http://www.alandix.com/blog/?p=80#comment-13381 [...] 20 years later (as I described in my post last week) I am sitting watching the spinning rainbow ball as Word struggles to save a document (over an hour [...] [...] 20 years later (as I described in my post last week) I am sitting watching the spinning rainbow ball as Word struggles to save a document (over an hour [...]

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