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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (18260)	3/27/1998 11:50:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Obscure bug hits Mac Office 98 news.com This one purely for amusement, really. A bug in a utility for Office 98 for the Apple Macintosh can trash the System Folder in the computer's operating system, but ironically it only strikes if you're trying to remove the newly released software suite. The duality of man strikes again. Microsoft just doesn't like it when you remove their software. IE4, that add/remove thing doesn't mean what you'd think. Office98 for Mac, things escalate a bit. No point being subtle, just trash the OS. Quite literally, in a metaphorical way. If a user manually moves the Office 98 library to the Extensions folder from the Microsoft Office 98 folder and then runs the Remove Office 98 utility, the System Folder--rather than the Office 98 folder--will be put in the trash. The problem lies in the fact that trash is automatically emptied when the computer is restarted, meaning a user could unwittingly erase her System Folder. Could this be a forerunner of Bill's doomsday machine? Meanwhile, for the purveyor of high end financial math there's this: Excel 97 bugged again www5.zdnet.com If you're using Microsoft Corp.'s Excel 97 spreadsheet, you might want to double-check your math with your calculator. Oh dear. Maybe fraudulent Java was right all along. Cheers, Dan.