(http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2008/07/09/why-do-five-dictionary-words-require-a-60mb-windows-update) (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955020)
Firefox 3.0 also flags those five words. Expect a Firefox 3.0 update RSN now...};-) ===== Why do five dictionary words require a 60MB Windows update? By Emil Protalinski | Published: July 09, 2008 - 02:10PM CT Yesterday was July 2008's Patch Tuesday, the day Microsoft released the monthly security patches for vulnerabilities in its software via Windows Update and various other channels. The software giant also sneaked in a nonsecurity update that is worth noting simply because it's quite a bizarre one. It appears that the English and German dictionaries in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 do not contain the following words: Friendster, Klum, Nazr, Obama, and Racicot. Applications that use the dictionary will flag these words as misspellings. Apparently this issue is important enough that it requires its own update, instead of say, being rolled in with the next service pack. [...] ===== -- Soh Kam Yung my Google Reader Shared links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16851815156817689753) my Google Reader Shared SFAS links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/16851815156817689753/label/sfas) _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
