Comments on: Microsoft Releases Vista Hotfix for Obama

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:53:03 +0000

Right you are! Fixed…

By: Eats, shoots & leaves

Eats, shoots & leaves — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:18:52 +0000

Unfortunately, spell checkers can’t weed out homonyms. The author of the article needs to learn the difference between “it’s,” the contraction of “it is” (used correctly in the phrase “the dictionary can’t confirm it’s an existing word”) and the possessive form of “it,” which is “its” without the apostrophe (which should have been used in the sentence “Windows Vista has a built in dictionary used by some of it’s programs.).

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:30:04 +0000

This hotfix, at 58MB (x86) and 65MB (x64), has to be the hands-down most bloated one ever to be released by MS, all to fix a total of 5 English proper nouns. I suspect it wasn’t the celebrity of the names themselves that warranted correction, but the suggested corrections. I’m sure that “Nazi” was the suggested correction for “Nazr”.