Satan gives a lovelorn schlub 7 wishes and grants them as asked,
to the letter... then thwarts each one with a twist that falls outside the specs (One wish was that he and his love be united forever in a quiet setting away from the city. And so they are. But Satan makes him a nun). Somewhere in Redmond a working group regards that movie as a manifesto.
It's funny, MS used to be notorious for bloated whackadoodle code because they were so anal about not breaking legacy apps. If you look at the second table at the first link, SP2 currently fails at rendering spreadsheets created by Office's own compatibility plugin, the one they're still
preening about on their "interoperability" site. If that doesn't get fixed before SP2 goes to Update, anyone who followed MS's recommendation will get burned.
I had never run across this before, and now I'm wondering how many other things MS products "disable upon saving" in yet another of their dumbass attempts to force people to their Latest and Crappiest products ...
Well, right now the two largest science journals,
Science and
Nature, are refusing all submissions created in Word 2007 because it borks MathML. Surely Word can save in the older .doc format though, right? You bet! But, in the conversion it turns math expressions into images. Images. Break out the OCR and pray it doesn't confuse delta with A, every editor's dream assignment.