Posted on 12/23/2009 2:45:21 PM PST by Ultra Sonic 007
I’m suggesting a not-ready-for prime time update might be released on 1/11/2010, and that it is best to see how it goes before updating around that time.
Then disable them. Just click on Word Options under the main Word menu and look for AutoCorrect Options.
Understood. Glad I asked. :-)
I would bet huge money that some years ago, Microsoft had i4i “demonstrate” whatever product / program / protocol we’re talking about here, decided some months later that they weren’t quite interested in it, and some months after that, abra cadabra, there it is in Microsoft Word.
That’s how Microsoft became Microsoft.
I have never had OpenOffice crash on me, in windows or Linux. What version you running?
>> the way the XML language is implemented
And CO2 is a pollutant.
Anyone familiar with the specifics of the patent violation?
Does it work better than your link?
Well, he who lives by the corruption of intellectual property law dies by the corruption of intellectual property law.
The patent affects OpenOffice too, as well as any other word processing program that uses XML.
Using XML to represent a document is obvious to any person ‘skilled in the art’ of computer programming, as the patent lingo goes.
These idiotic combo patents (use A to create B) make practically impossible nowadays to write a non-trivial software application without tripping over a dozen of them. This includes writing freeware for Linux.
I own one of these idiot combo patents: Use SQL to create a user password database. My boss made me apply for it, and I was astonished to see it granted.
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