Skip to content

Marius Bancila's Blog

About code. Mostly on C++

  • Home
  • About me
  • Works
  • Privacy Policy

Office

Office 2010 and How the Story Ends

June 8, 2010June 8, 2010 by Marius Bancila

A week ago I was reporting about the problems I had experienced with Office 2010. That was not the end of the story, and it’s probably fair enough to tell how it ends. After installing Office 2010 64 bit and then 32 bit and both crashing every other 5 minutes, I returned to Office 2007. … Read more

Categories Tools Tags Office, Office2010 Leave a comment

A Series of Misfortunate Events with Office 2010

May 31, 2010 by Marius Bancila

Last week I decided it was time to move forward from Office 2007 and install the new 2010 version. People were asking me for some time if I was trying the beta, but I was stubborn in not installing Office 2010 until the RTM. This is the journal of the past days of using Office … Read more

Categories Stories, Tools Tags Office, Office2010 4 Comments

Microsoft can’t Sell MS Word in USA

August 13, 2009 by Marius Bancila

This Tuesday a Texas court ruled that Microsoft can no longer sell Microsoft Word in USA because of a patent infringement (U.S. Patent No. 5,787,449). Canadian based company i4i accused Microsoft of willingly violating this patent on a method for reading XML. Microsoft was found guilty and ruled to pay $240 millions, plus other fines … Read more

Categories Software Tags Microsoft, Office, patent, Word 1 Comment

About me

Find me on:

Archives

October 2026
M T W T F S S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031  
« Aug    

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

Recent Posts

  • cppdashboard.dev – The aggregator of what matters in C++ right now
  • The PImpl idiom and the C++26 std::indirect type
  • Improvements to std::format in C++26
  • Multiplying matrices in C++
  • Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifiers (ULIDs)
  • Time-based Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs v7)
  • What is the C++ nth_element algorithm?
  • What’s new in C++26: contracts (part 3)
  • What’s new in C++26 (part 2)
  • What’s new in C++26 (part 1)

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
© 2026 Marius Bancila's Blog • Built with GeneratePress