Story: Microsoft's licence to kill

Posted by: Chay Harley (Friday 18 March 2005, 5:07 PM)

I love how each new release of Microsoft products have more bugs and everything is moved around.
We upgraded to Excel 2003 at the end of 2004, and have had nothing but problems with our Excel add-ins and workbooks (spending a few weeks rewriting everything to ensure stability and compatibility).
Going backwards is not an option - but going forwards is.
Each time I encounter these silly bugs, I spend 15 mins looking at how I can do the same job in StarOffice/Open Office. Initially I was disappointed (a year ago), these days I'm hopeful for the future.

Give me another year or two, and perhaps I can port everything out of MSOffice and into an Open Source alternative, where I can see what code bug causes my add-in to fail.
I'll spend the time to write a patch and announce it to the moderators as per the GPL licence.
My bug will go away forever, and I will have contributed to something greater than myself.

Long live The Rebellion. Down with The Empire.