tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296248.post114118886581325018..comments2024-02-12T00:47:08.699-08:00Comments on David Weiss: I work at MicrosoftDavid Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00629153569649264575noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296248.post-1151553870495496332006-06-28T21:04:00.000-07:002006-06-28T21:04:00.000-07:00oh thats so awesome. I would love working there......oh thats so awesome. I would love working there...I love macs and and PC's so it would be cool.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296248.post-1142861040135250512006-03-20T05:24:00.000-08:002006-03-20T05:24:00.000-08:00Closing the loop on the accented characters...I kn...Closing the loop on the accented characters...<BR/><BR/>I know of no current bugs related to accented characters. Make sure you are running the most current version of Office 2004.<BR/><BR/>If you still see problems, let me know either in the comments or via email and I'll make sure they get in our bug database.David Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00629153569649264575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296248.post-1142544159713541842006-03-16T13:22:00.000-08:002006-03-16T13:22:00.000-08:00Why don't you write your *software* "almost exculs...<I>Why don't you write your *software* "almost exculsively with Xcode and the Cocoa APIs"?</I><BR/><BR/>Hey, David, I can take this one, if you don't mind...<BR/><BR/>Because they'd like to ship another version sometime before the year 2012, as this would require them to completely rewrite their codebase? Because Carbon is a complete API peer of Cocoa as far as what you can do with it on the OS, so they don't NEED to?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296248.post-1142313467455493102006-03-13T21:17:00.000-08:002006-03-13T21:17:00.000-08:00You mean you guys didn't buy the Mac ?? ;-)) You s...You mean you guys didn't buy the Mac ?? ;-)) You sure bought *some* Mac though.<BR/>It's interesting to learn that you are using XCode fro mostly everything. If I have had to guess I would have thought that through the "heritage" from the MacOS <9 era you would have been coding in CodeWarrior.<BR/>I would guess it's a good sign for the development of a MacIntel native version then,<BR/><BR/>David, I also use accented characters and for the most, Office X and 2004 are OK (as long as you make usre Office is up to date). The only app I've ever had problems with was PPT and all bugs have carefully been reported :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296248.post-1142312589384422332006-03-13T21:03:00.000-08:002006-03-13T21:03:00.000-08:00Why don't you write your *software* "almost exculs...Why don't you write your *software* "almost exculsively with Xcode and the Cocoa APIs"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296248.post-1141526362865863772006-03-04T18:39:00.000-08:002006-03-04T18:39:00.000-08:00Anonymous,I am not aware of these problems, but I'...Anonymous,<BR/><BR/>I am not aware of these problems, but I'll check into them and see what I can find out. More information, like which version of Mac Office, which version of Win Office and on which version of the Mac OS, is needed. Please feel free to email me directly with more info.<BR/><BR/>David WeissDavid Weisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00629153569649264575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13296248.post-1141518233124801642006-03-04T16:23:00.000-08:002006-03-04T16:23:00.000-08:00Hi,Here is a tip to make the life of your customer...Hi,<BR/><BR/>Here is a tip to make the life of your customer better. Make sure you test for upper ascii (text with accents) in your industrial use case tools. They are so many bugs for years that affects non english writing community ! But as the tester do not test for this... it goes un notice<BR/>Examples?<BR/>- Pict to WMF conversion of text label in arial (default) messing up accents when sending files from Office:Mac to win<BR/>- many crashes in PPT when trying to spell check with the contextual menu<BR/><BR/>just my 2cAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com