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Warren has been Informed. You can stand down, now.
by cstross 16y ago
Warren has been Informed.
You can stand down, now.
- rbanffy 16y agoHe could also want to contact Microsoft and file a bug report with them, since the problem only appeared after a Windows upgrade from some previous release to Windows 7, it looks like a Windows problem more than a OpenOffice problem. That's not a very promising road. Another option would be to try LibreOffice (as pointed out by wccrawford) and see if whatever behavior Microsoft changed in Windows 7 wasn't already compensated for. I don't see OpenOffice as a viable product right now. LibreOffice, at least, doesn't have the only serious rival Microsoft has in the uncoolness category behind the steering wheel. So far, they never failed to ruin perfectly good products and OpenOffice was not particularly good to begin with.
- Hov 16y agoAre you serious? Windows 7 was in beta and RC publically for a very long time. Thats just lazy in my opinion.
- rbanffy 16y agoOf course I am. If a new release of Gnome broke some code of yours (that sticks to documented APIs and worked fine on the previous release), you would file a bug, regardless of the fact you could have downloaded and built everything from their version control on a daily basis to test, even automatically. Why should we treat Microsoft any different? Even if I detected the problem in the first public alpha, I would file a bug. If the code sticks to the API rules and a new release of the OS broke it, it's the OS that's buggy, not your code. If the OS maker doesn't fix the bug using the "you should have tested" excuse I question how much it respects its users and developers.