CibbuanoMicrosoft updates: an 60 MB update for five dictionary words?
August 7th 2008 08:20
He looked it up and found that it was because of 5 words that weren't in the dictionary and were important enough to warrant an update:
"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. "
Shall we assume it's the Obama that forced the Update team to hurriedly send out the new dictionary?
What we notice from this, of course, is that there's no way to simply add in new words to the dictionary? The entire database has to be replaced? That seems like rather poor design... I certainly don't want to sit around, waiting for a 60 MB update, just for five, rather useless words.
It's of particular importance in Australia, where many of us have rather slow broadband speeds, with download quotas. I'd rather use that 60 MB for something else, not to mention that it makes me question the use of the other updates.
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