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Microsoft Equation Editor 3.0. The piece of add-in for MS Word that has been there since 1995, and finally removed in 2018 due to a security problem. Yet, they
by charlieyu1 5y ago
Microsoft Equation Editor 3.0. The piece of add-in for MS Word that has been there since 1995, and finally removed in 2018 due to a security problem. Yet, they are still everywhere for work related to high school maths.
And there aren’t better replacements. I could type in the old equation editor blindfolded. Every keystroke has predictable behaviour. Ctrl-F for fractions, Ctrl-R for square roots. No other equation editors offered that. The new equation editor is not the same, I need to press so many unnecessary arrow keys just to get what I could have done before in half of the time.
- Anunayj 5y agoI seem to remember Microsoft in the past also manually patched the binary for it because they probably lost the source code to it. [1] [1] https://blog.0patch.com/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-patch-their.html https://blog.0patch.com/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-...