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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Leaves Serious Bug Unresolved for Decades

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Argh! Microsoft Notepad CRLF! Argh!

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| GNU/Linux/Unix users, and even Mac users, hate Microsoft Notepad. If you must 
| use Windows, could you at least replace it with - I don't know - anything 
| else at all? Because Microsoft Notepad is to text what Internet Explorer is 
| to HTML.   
| 
| See, Notepad has the line-break formatting bug. If you write a text file on 
| anything but Windows and send it to a Microsoft user and they open it in 
| Notepad, all your paragraph line breaks (where you hit the 'return/enter' 
| key) will not show up, resulting in a great big blob of text, or, if they're 
| viewing with word-wrap turned off, a single loooooong line of text where you 
| have to keep scrolling sideways.     
| 
| [...]
| 
| And it's been this way for 23 years!!! They still haven't fixed it, and we've 
| spent an accumulated year off of all of our lives by now shuffling documents 
| around because of one stupid program.  
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http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=argh_microsoft_notepad_crlf_argh&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

This bug once cost me hours. People made available a TeX template with bad
(Windows) line breaks. I was using GNU/Linux.


Recent:

Microsoft Patch Tuesday does not fix critical Access bug

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| Microsoft Patch Tuesday is upon us with four "important" fixes for SQL,
| Windows Explorer, DNS and Outlook Web Access for Exchange Server. But there's
| no fix for a critical bug in Access that is currently being exploited by
| hackers.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/29670
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