A half-truth is a whole lie - Jewish proverb
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Office 2003 shuts out users
PUNTERS WHO USE Microsoft's Rights Management Service (RMS) on Office 2003 have suddenly found themselves unable to access their documents.
Office 2003 users have been getting the error, "Unexpected error occurred. Please try again later or contact your system administrator," when they attempt to open or save protected documents.
Of course the system administer knows only as much about this as the next bloke, if the next bloke is George Bush.
The problem apparently is being caused by a bug that seems to be in all of the Vole's Office 2003 products including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.
Office 2007 and 2010 Beta users have no problems and are secretly smirking at their backward colleagues who have not updated.
Meanwhile Openoffice.org users are laughing at all of them because they have not had to pay Microsoft for the experience of having its software lock them out of their documents.
A spokesVole said that the bug was caused by a Information Rights Management (IRM) certificate that had expired and it is working "as quickly as possible" to provide its customers with a solution.
There's more about this latest Microsoft fiasco here. µ
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I can still badger it by opening Word and then doing a Mail Merge to a spreadsheet, which opens Excel. Excel says it's installing something, but I can cancel and it will work.
However when I click Save I get the Installing nonsense again.
I have a genuine copy of office, seriously, I have the CD's somewhere but I tidied up recently and cannot find them. Fcuk MS and their broken shite!
RIBBONS - OMFG WTF.
I can only imagine how many support people are being hired just for the helpdesk calls over this useless piece of piss of toolbar! ;-))
I guess microsoft are really crap when Bill Gates isn't around. Sell your shares.
Has there ever been a DRM scheme that didn't screw legitimate customers?
I think not.
A common sense regression test for a rights management system including time limits would be to check it after having advanced system time. But we already knew that Volish testers were bone-headed.
... smart users of Microsoft Office are laughing at everyone (including OpenOffice users), secure in the fact that they don't use IRM or anything like it for one key reason (it's an axiom, I'd say): the more they overtake the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain. The simplest solution to a problem or need is always better.
Bad user ! no pay for upgrade ! bad bad user ! Punished !
I can't help byt wonder if that "bug" really is one ... Incompetence, or greed ?
Microsoft would get me to update my Copy of Orifice2k3 is to, return to it.
i.e. lose the &*@#'ing Ribbons!
Why do they always have to try and reinvent the freaking Wheel, when the old One was perfect in every detail?
"Office 2007 and 2010 Beta users have no problems and are secretly smirking at their backward colleges who have not updated."
Silly backward colleges - wait until my colleagues hear about this!