Betalogue

Infuriating lack of progress when it comes to supporting the scroll wheel in Microsoft applications.

A correction to yesterday’s post: Some mouse tracking problems remain.

Important improvements and bug fixes. Not perfect, but already quite good for a fairly new system release.

All in all, a great week-end for the Gunners.

It is now actually possible to use Spell Catcher with PowerPoint—to a point.

Dialog sheet attached to the wrong window? Only in Microsoftland.

Cursor stays in italics even when the application is inserting roman characters.

Only a visual glitch, but probably symptomatic of the underlying problems.

Rendering Arial 10 pt properly is apparently too much to ask.

Yet another illustration of the incompetence of the MacBU. Either they never use their own software, or they don’t care.

A counterintuitive way to extract just enough extra life from a dying hard drive.

Using the “Merge” file format to work around a problem with repeating field data in FileMaker Pro.

The behaviour changes but is not exactly improved.

Forget about undoing your typing in Word 2008 if you use an input method.

Rather inelegant handling of multiple software updates requiring a restart.