Microsoft Office: Will history repeat itself? zdnet.com
Uh, this is not the kind of repeat history that comes across PR Newswire. Also not LindyBill's preferred form of Microsoft news, but news none the less.
Could Office 97 Service Release 2 (SR2) end up as buggy as SR1, the Office patch that Microsoft Corp. released a year ago?
Bug trackers at the Sumas, Wash., bug-tracking outfit bugnet.com are raising that possibility, issuing an alert today on a number of problems that are plaguing SR2 customers.
Microsoft officials acknowledged they had seen the Bugnet warning, but said they were unable to judge the severity without more technical specifics. "The Bugnet report says there are issues but doesn't say much more," said Microsoft product manager John Duncan.
Foremost among bugs reported by early downloaders, according to Bugnet, is a problem that causes Office 97 SR2 to "choke" if it detects the original, or base, version of any Office application on the system and/or if versions of some files are reported inaccurately. As a result, Bugnet is advising users against installing SR2 if they have any Office 97 applications dating from the first half of 1997 installed on their system.
Cheers, Dan. |
