No doubt you’ve heard by now that Office 2003 ships with a font that contains two swastikas. (I think Reuters first published the story, but apparently Microsoft itself fed the story to the press). Apologies have been made all around, MS has promised a tool for removing the offending characters (which isn’t posted yet, as […]
Microsoft has released the spec for WordprocessingML (WordML), SpreadsheetML (ExcelML) and FormTemplate Schemas (for InfoPath) to the world. Here’s another news story that I just don’t get. Microsoft has released the spec for “WordprocessingML” (WordML), SpreadsheetML (ExcelML) and FormTemplate Schemas (for InfoPath) to the world. Cool. But the stories! “Microsoft Pries Open Office 2003” says […]
Microsoft Word documents are notorious for containing private information in file headers which people would sometimes rather not share. The British government of Tony Blair just learned this lesson the hard way. A few weeks ago, Richard Smith – whom many of you will recall as a tireless defender of personal privacy – sent me […]
We continue our look at the bogus “Confessions of a Mac to PC Convert” report. All of you regular Office Watch readers know that Microsoft hired a PR firm to come up with a completely bogus testimonial – “Confessions of a Mac to PC Convert” – which MS posted on its Web site on October […]
The “Arial Unicode MS” font – which is regarded by many as the ultimate Unicode font, containing virtually every character from every written language – disappeared from the Microsoft website in August 2002. Sometime in mid-August 2002, Microsoft removed a giant reference font from its Web site. The “Arial Unicode MS” font – which is […]
