Comments | daraknor: Microsoft doesn't believe in cruft.

daraknor

Microsoft doesn't believe in cruft.

Jan 04, 2008 16:11

I'm on a borrowed OEM computer, and I pasted some unformatted text into Microsoft Word 2007. I looked at the spell check very quickly and found something unusual. The dictionary doesn't have an entry for "cruft." I have come to the personal conclusion, Microsoft does not believe in "cruft" as a concept. Here are some file sizes from Office 2007 ( Read more... )

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antayla January 5 2008, 01:28:05 UTC

LOL.
If Microsoft doesn't believe in cruft it must not exist, right?

daraknor January 6 2008, 20:32:26 UTC

Not until they come out with the new cruft standard that takes of all your cruft needs. Until then, cruft does not exist because Microsoft can't sell it to you. In the meantime, please quadruple your RAM, double your processor speed (and add a second one) and our partners, err... friends... err... unrelated company who we have no business relationship with over at Intel will help you enjoy our new operating system.

tiny_muse February 6 2008, 02:40:37 UTC

Actually, I think your description explains why it's not included in MS.
It's jargon.

Most word processing dictionaries exclude jargon, unless it's become insanely common. That's why you have the option to add your own entries to the spell check dictionary.

daraknor February 7 2008, 01:02:08 UTC

It is part of the OpenOffice 1.3 dictionary (Sun knows what cruft is), gtkspell (GNOME knows what cruft is) and the aspell (linux knows what cruft is) dictionary.

tiny_muse February 14 2008, 03:47:00 UTC

And it appears in almost no published dictionary. Which also generally don't use jargon. I think this is just another case of you've decided you don't like certain programs (mostly MS) and nothing's going to change your mind.