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Microsoft software quality??

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Yeah, I also laughed for that bug. Excel IMHO is the best application from M$, but now they screwed it up too :Oops: . Anyway that problem does not affect formulaes, it just shows wrong value for user.
 
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Another example of how MS' overcomplication of everything they do lets the bugs flow in. How hard is it to just display a nummber?
 
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Wait a minute... lets reconsider the thread title... "Microsoft Software Quality". Doesn't this thread belong in our "Post an Oxymoron" thread? :D :D
 
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hmmmm......

I wonder whether everyone over at the Vista forums points out every little OSX bug and proceeds to question Apple's quality.

EXCEL is a great piece of software, and is probably the best spreadsheet on the market.
 
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vicariousgeorge said:
hmmmm......

I wonder whether everyone over at the Vista forums points out every little OSX bug and proceeds to question Apple's quality.

EXCEL is a great piece of software, and is probably the best spreadsheet on the market.
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As long as your sums don't add up to 65,535.

It doesn't matter how great Excel is (a point that I happen to agree with), that's just a plain stupid bug. Let's hope Office for Mac isn't based on the same borked codebase. And Vista forums are irrelevant - I don't need to question Microsoft's quality because it is demonstrably poor.
 
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vicariousgeorge said:
hmmmm......

I wonder whether everyone over at the Vista forums points out every little OSX bug and proceeds to question Apple's quality.
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Heck, we do, and we generally like Apple.

EXCEL is a great piece of software, and is probably the best spreadsheet on the market.
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Maybe so...at least for Excel 2003/2004.

This bug in 2007 is ridiculous. There is no way that a serious software developer should fail to test edge cases like 65,535. Its inexcusable.
 

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