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VoodooV
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I realize this may seem like a noob question, but where do guys go for official or semi official news about Microsoft product bugs and tracking the solutions? I, of course, know about the MS knowledge base, but I'm talking about recently discovered stuff
I know about MS's newsgroups and technet, but wading through it to find what I need has always been a headache. Is there some sort of summary detailing just new stuff that MS acknowledges as a bug
We're making a big jump from Wordperfect to Office 2K7 at work, and well, what with the recent Excel 2K7 65,535 bug and everything. While I definitely don't pretend to be an Office expert, I do need to keep on top of what bugs our users discover and track what the solutions are and etc.
So, using this Excel 2K7 65,535 bug as an example. I've read about a half dozen or so blogs on the issue, even a Excel team blog about it. I know a fix is in progress but given the fact that this bug has been fairly publicized, despite that it seems like its just a rendering issue and that the actual calculations done seem to be accurate, our more tech savvy users have already started to hassle me about and I'd like to stay in the know.
I haven't been able to find a KB article about the 65,535 bug. I presume this is because the bug is so new. So I guess that's the crux of it. with bugs that have been around for a while, you can just search a knowledge base and find something, but for bugs that have just been discovered or have been overhyped in the news, where do you go to keep tabs on the progress. I'd like to refer to something official, and not just someone's blog if at all possible.
Thanks in advance.
I know about MS's newsgroups and technet, but wading through it to find what I need has always been a headache. Is there some sort of summary detailing just new stuff that MS acknowledges as a bug
We're making a big jump from Wordperfect to Office 2K7 at work, and well, what with the recent Excel 2K7 65,535 bug and everything. While I definitely don't pretend to be an Office expert, I do need to keep on top of what bugs our users discover and track what the solutions are and etc.
So, using this Excel 2K7 65,535 bug as an example. I've read about a half dozen or so blogs on the issue, even a Excel team blog about it. I know a fix is in progress but given the fact that this bug has been fairly publicized, despite that it seems like its just a rendering issue and that the actual calculations done seem to be accurate, our more tech savvy users have already started to hassle me about and I'd like to stay in the know.
I haven't been able to find a KB article about the 65,535 bug. I presume this is because the bug is so new. So I guess that's the crux of it. with bugs that have been around for a while, you can just search a knowledge base and find something, but for bugs that have just been discovered or have been overhyped in the news, where do you go to keep tabs on the progress. I'd like to refer to something official, and not just someone's blog if at all possible.
Thanks in advance.
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The office I work in has been using Office 2k7 now for many many months, and we have only found and fixed one major bug in that timespan, and it was a bug that was caused by *upgrading* from 2003.
Microsoft puts out quality products that are well tested (with the exception of their OS).
Anyway,
http://www.securityfocus.com/
puts out a weekly newsletter that highlights security flaws with Microsoft products, including Office. That may be a good place to start.
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EDIT from your new post: Honestly this kind of thing can happen with deploying any new piece of software, and many times there are not official responses to bugs until the company either has a fix or can reproduce the problem.
We only got our license last week and we've already been directed to deploy it out with barely an opportunity to install it for ourselves to test and get the feel of it. And already there is a bug. an overhyped bug, but a bug nonetheless.
There is already criticism of our managers for not planning this well enough/rushing it out too soon before we've tested it. Not all of it unfounded mind you, but that stuff is beyond my pay grade.
Thus, some users are panicked, and I want something to refer to so I can say "see, MS already knows there is a problem, maybe there is a temporary workaround, and when to expect a patch. I have a reputation as someone who gives straight answers (which sometimes means admitting that i don't know) to uphold.
Thanks for the link Jasc
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Not to hijack, but what's the 65535 bug? Something having to do with the last row, I assume?
TLDR: many calculations where the result should be 65535 get displayed as 100000. it seems to be just a display issue, because if you do further calculations with that result, the calculations appear to be accurate.
the quickest reproduction of it is 850*77.1
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Linky to Excel Team blog.