Comments on: Spring Cleaning http://www.schwieb.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.schwieb.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F05%2F22%2Fspring-cleaning%2F&seed_title=Spring+Cleaning Random blatherings Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:31:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Boris Karloff http://www.schwieb.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.schwieb.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F05%2F22%2Fspring-cleaning%2F&seed_title=Spring+Cleaning#comment-35638 Boris Karloff Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:19:06 +0000 http://www.schwieb.com/blog/?p=73#comment-35638 Michael... I was bored... still... from the comments all this cruft in the code is not exactly an advertisement for good housekeeping on M$FT's part. All this extra junk would seem to slow down programme execution and lead to bigger memory footprints - and given that none of the Office programmes is exactly petite when it comes to memory usage then I think it is a fair call... Take your point about backwards compatibility, but then that didn't exactly stop M$FT from switching to the new file format. I would take it that it is possible to keep the software Tiger alert (as it were) yet still incorporate the new stuff from Lepoard... I'm not a programmer at all so I don't know the ins and outs of all this stuff, but it seems to me that leaving lots of junk lying around is not helping anyone... Michael… I was bored… still… from the comments all this cruft in the code is not exactly an advertisement for good housekeeping on M$FT’s part.

All this extra junk would seem to slow down programme execution and lead to bigger memory footprints - and given that none of the Office programmes is exactly petite when it comes to memory usage then I think it is a fair call…

Take your point about backwards compatibility, but then that didn’t exactly stop M$FT from switching to the new file format. I would take it that it is possible to keep the software Tiger alert (as it were) yet still incorporate the new stuff from Lepoard…

I’m not a programmer at all so I don’t know the ins and outs of all this stuff, but it seems to me that leaving lots of junk lying around is not helping anyone…

]]> By: Michael http://www.schwieb.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.schwieb.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F05%2F22%2Fspring-cleaning%2F&seed_title=Spring+Cleaning#comment-35585 Michael Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:15:20 +0000 http://www.schwieb.com/blog/?p=73#comment-35585 Boris, This entire post is focused on "Spring cleaning." You seem to want to complain about an alcoholic going to Alcoholics Anonymous. As for the Tiger statement, I believe you mis-inferred Schwieb's meaning. My understanding of what he's saying is that Office (as a product) is still backwards-compatible with Tiger. That means that they can't use Leopard-only calls that wouldn't exist on a Mac running Tiger, or Office wouldn't work (since the code libraries from Leopard don't exist). Sheesh, Boris, way to think critically. ;P Boris,

This entire post is focused on “Spring cleaning.” You seem to want to complain about an alcoholic going to Alcoholics Anonymous.

As for the Tiger statement, I believe you mis-inferred Schwieb’s meaning. My understanding of what he’s saying is that Office (as a product) is still backwards-compatible with Tiger. That means that they can’t use Leopard-only calls that wouldn’t exist on a Mac running Tiger, or Office wouldn’t work (since the code libraries from Leopard don’t exist).

Sheesh, Boris, way to think critically. ;P

]]> By: Boris Karloff http://www.schwieb.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.schwieb.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F05%2F22%2Fspring-cleaning%2F&seed_title=Spring+Cleaning#comment-35471 Boris Karloff Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:22:01 +0000 http://www.schwieb.com/blog/?p=73#comment-35471 Hmmm.... lots of cruft/crud/crapoola/grunge/rubbish... seems to be one of the defining features of Microsoft code... And what is this about Office only up to running on Tiger - that software is now well out of date- how about you guys get with the program and catch up with Leopard (you should be just about there when Jobs announces the name for Mac OS 10.7)... Always a day late and a dollar short.... sigh..... Hmmm…. lots of cruft/crud/crapoola/grunge/rubbish… seems to be one of the defining features of Microsoft code…

And what is this about Office only up to running on Tiger - that software is now well out of date- how about you guys get with the program and catch up with Leopard (you should be just about there when Jobs announces the name for Mac OS 10.7)…

Always a day late and a dollar short…. sigh…..

]]> By: Brrryc3 http://www.schwieb.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.schwieb.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F05%2F22%2Fspring-cleaning%2F&seed_title=Spring+Cleaning#comment-35118 Brrryc3 Mon, 26 May 2008 17:05:34 +0000 http://www.schwieb.com/blog/?p=73#comment-35118 When I said "i Mac" I meant "iMac." When I said “i Mac” I meant “iMac.”

]]> By: Brrryc3 http://www.schwieb.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.schwieb.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F05%2F22%2Fspring-cleaning%2F&seed_title=Spring+Cleaning#comment-35108 Brrryc3 Mon, 26 May 2008 01:27:50 +0000 http://www.schwieb.com/blog/?p=73#comment-35108 Man, it seems like we have to say, "Good grief!" every once in a while, don't we. Anyway, Schwieb, I haven't looked at any of the other posts except the one before this to see if there were any comments on my post. I'm just warning you not to try to e-mail me…I have a Managed account on the family i Mac, and it's running Leopard. Man, it seems like we have to say, “Good grief!” every once in a while, don’t we. Anyway, Schwieb, I haven’t looked at any of the other posts except the one before this to see if there were any comments on my post. I’m just warning you not to try to e-mail me…I have a Managed account on the family i Mac, and it’s running Leopard.

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