Re: Office 2004 SP1 - What did it Fix??
From: Paul Berkowitz (berkowit_at_spoof_silcom.com)
Date: 10/14/04
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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:56:14 -0700
On 10/14/04 7:37 AM, in article 1glmy6c.1qrw12616i0jugN%matt@tidbits.com,
"matt neuburg" <matt@tidbits.com> wrote:
> JE McGimpsey <jemcgimpsey@mvps.org> wrote:
>
>> In article <BD91A4FC.3534%bethrosengard@earthlink.net>,
>> Beth Rosengard <bethrosengard@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>> At the bottom of the download page at Mactopia.com, it says this:
>>>
>>> "For more information about this service release, see Knowledge Base (KB)
>>> article KB 883951 at http://support.microsoft.com."
>>>
>>> The actual URL is <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=883951>
>>
>> Note that it fixes more than the KB says. I'm reworking some of the bugs
>> I list on my site.
>
> It sure didn't fix some of the main bugs I know about.
>
> For example, if you set the filter in the Revisions toolbar to show only
> Comments, and there are no comments, then if you press the Next button
> in the toolbar, Word will crash. I've performed this crash reliably
> dozens of times, and every time a report has presumably gone to
> Microsoft. It isn't fixed.
>
> There's a major bug in VBA in the Range.New method where you supply
> numbers for the range's position: if your document has any fields in it,
> the range may end up in completely the wrong place. This isn't fixed.
>
> I could rattle on and on, but my point is, don't make the
> reverse-psychology mistake of assuming that something is fixed merely
> because it is *not* listed at that URL. m.
Office 11.1.0 is not advertised as a major bug-fix release. It was announced
as a release that fixes security issues and stability, and also happens to
have some bug fixes, some of which are announced in that KB article and some
of which, as JE says, were not. The security issues are mostly "potential
holes" for possible exploits, none of which has occurred and now can'. You
won't notice anything. Some crashing bugs (rare circumstances) have been
fixed (the "stability" issues).
As far as other bugs go, it's the usual thing for an early service release:
they tried to fix bugs or nuisances that thousands of people have reported,
if they were easy enough to fix in time. For example, there have been
countless reports (several hundreds right here on the newsgroups, thousand
more via MS Error Reporting) about Entourage's icon bouncing repeatedly in
the Dock when there's a server error. That has been fixed. The Word errors
you report above, Matt, have probably only been reported by you and maybe a
couple of others. That wasn't enough to get them high priority, Anything to
do with VBA is specialist, and quite possibly difficult to fix, to boot.
MS apparently really is using the Error Reporting (MERP) to find bugs and to
prioritize. So do, everyone, keep sending in reports.
MS never announce update releases in advance. But I'm quite sure they are
planning more bug fix releases for 2004. 11.1.0 is not the end of it.
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