SJS's Journal: Begin Bug Fixed

Well.

Some time ago, Microsoft didn't think things through, and introduced a bug into Outlook that caused problems if you used the word "begin" and it happened to end up at the start of a line, followed by a couple of spaces. As they redefined the world in their terms, they called this an "attachment", and this caused problems.

See http://lists.jammed.com/ISN/2002/02/0042.html -- essentially, the Microsoft "solution" was to stop using the word 'begin', or to capitalize it no matter where it was in the sentence. Instead of fixing the bug, they tried to change the language.

That just pissed me off. I started using "begin quoting..." as an attribution line. This pissed of some people, but they weren't generally willing to file a bug report... so screw 'em. Others started pissed at me, but got pissed at Microsoft after discussing the issue. A brief search, and I found someone actively trying to get others to join in at http://www.ichimusai.org/oe/.

However.

It seems that Microsoft finally fixed the bug: http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2005/06/18/53813.aspx

Huzzah!