Microsoft Office: Fail, Literally

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2008-12-08 21:17:02 UTC
Modified: 2008-12-08 21:17:02 UTC

Just published in The Register:

Entire class fails IT exam by submitting in Word format

The 29 students of a computing class at a school in Lincolnshire have all failed to gain their diploma because their teacher told them to save their coursework in Microsoft Word format, which is not accepted by the exam board.

Two days ago the following showed up in a blog.

Excel fails

Source: Usability Hall of Shame: Excel [thanks to Tony Manco]

Since May of this year, I’ve been trying to snap screenshots and videos of those special moments when my software (or hardware) interactions have been… less than stellar.

Keep doing what you do, Microsoft. This is not the first such fluke and it is helping ODF and Free software. ⬆

Comments

Ty

2008-12-09 00:03:27

The top story is just crazy, for one they don't name any other document format, unless you write it in Word and then export it to PDF? Silly.

Plus they support excel???

If that is the case they should just go ODF or something and get it over with by using Open Office. But they accept Excel and reject word.

I think that is just a case of crazy people.

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Microsoft Office: Fail, Literally

Entire class fails IT exam by submitting in Word format

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