[Liberal Classic]

It means Word documents can get even bigger. ;)

[dfwgator]

The Blue Screen of Death will come up in half the time as it did before with the 32-bit version.

[general_re]

Ha. This last weekend, I took two .doc files and converted them to PDFs for a friend of mine - he's a nontechnical sort, so I was doing him a favor. Anyway, when he originally asked me to do it, I told him to just email me the files, and I'd take care of it. "Oh, no," he says. "I can't do that - they're too big." Him being on dialup and all. But I'm thinking "Too big? Odd..."

So he ends up burning them to CD and mailing it to me, and when it arrives, sure enough - he's got a pair of .doc files on the disk, at 18.2 MB apiece. Two files - ONE PAGE EACH. Jeeeezus, I know Office is bloated, but c'mon. After some prying, I finally figured out what was going on. Turns out that he'd embedded a picture that he took with his digital camera into each file. Said picture being a 3000x2000 uncompressed TIFF image, which he simply resized to fit the page. ;)