Sunday, November 15, 2009

Poland Sues Microsoft!

second edition:
Poland is suing microsoft to force the company to make changes in their word product. The government recently discovered that, due to similarities in the spelling of another english common word, the product's automatic spellchecker was not prompting users when they failed to capitalize the adjectival form of its proper name; this, they feel, is leading some countries to reap the benefits of disproportionate capitalization.

Asked to comment, the Zimbabwean government thinks the matter is being overblown, and the Czech republic remains ambivalent.


420 char limit edition:

Poland is suing microsoft to force the company to make changes in their word product. The government recently discovered that, due to similarities in the spelling of another english word, the product's automatic spellchecker was not prompting users when they failed to capitalize the adjectival form of its proper name; ...this, they feel, is leading some countries to reap the benefits of disproportionate capitalization.


first edition:
The government of Poland is suing microsoft to force the company to change some programming behind their microsoft word product. The government decided to file their complaint after it was discovered that, due to similarities in the spelling of another english common word, the product's automatic spellchecker was not prompting users when they failed to capitalize the adjectival form of its proper name; this, they feel, is leading some countries to reap the benefits of disproportionate capitalization.

When asked to comment on the case, the Uruguayan, Zimbabwean, and Thai governments all thought the matter was being overblown, but the government of the Czech republic remains ambivalent.

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