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1. Comment - Microsoft Faces Second WGA Lawsuit

   (Jul 5, 2006 - 12:59 PM)

   This case ought to be a slam dunk. It most definitely displays "this copy of windows may be counterfeit" nags on legitimate copies of Windows, even those validated as genuine by Microsoft's own genuine advantage diagnostics tool. You can disable it, but you'd be violating the DMCA's DRM circumvention rules.

2. Comment - OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta 2 Released

   (Aug 29, 2005 - 5:55 PM)

   Most recently, Outlook 2003 crashes when I open it. Access has multi-user corruption issues unless you split the backend from the frontend. Access 2002 will crash if I hover the mouse over a linked table, when it tries to display a tooltip. Access 2000 had no such problem. Occasionally, an autonumber in Access will reset to zero, giving a bunch of duplicate key errors. The database upsizing wizard usually doesn't work. I've had Word unrecoverably destroy enough documents that I'll never trust again. Excel is nice. The solver sometimes crashes, but it beats no solver at all. Occasionally someone will email me a 2mb excel file with only a dozen rows of information, followed by 32000 or so empty rows that I can't seem to trim off using Excel, but OOo will do it automatically.
   
   What I don't like about OOo 2.0 is that it tries to look like Office 2003, with the hard to look at gradient toolbars and such.