Hotfixes are commonly released to patch issues with an OS, and I have links to over 700 Vista hotfixes on this site. Most hotfixes deal with some sort of ‘bug’, but Microsoft has now released a hotfix related to presidential candidates, supermodels, and NBA stars.
Anyone that’s used a word-processor has probably used, and loved, the built in dictionary. Windows Vista has a built in dictionary used by some of it’s programs, like Windows Mail. It’s obvious to most that every word, especially proper nouns like peoples names, can’t be in the dictionary, and will be listed as misspelled since the dictionary can’t confirm it’s an existing word. I get this constantly with my last name. Until today, a few famous people had the same issue, but no more! Microsoft has released a hotfix that simply inserts five additional words into it’s Windows Vista dictionary.
Here is a list of the five words, and my best guess as to what they mean, based off a Google search on each:
- Friendster: A social networking site
- Klum: Heidi Klum, a German supermodel
- Nazr: Nazr Mohammad, an NBA player
- Obama: Barack Obama, U.S. presidential candidate
- Racicot: Marc Racicot, U.S. politician
The knowledgebase article points to a different article, over a year old, that noted this same issue with Microsoft Office 2003. For kicks I typed all these terms into Microsoft Word 2007 and the spelling checker was aware of them. This has to make you ask, what are the qualifications for getting added to these dictionaries?
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Written by Joe on July 10th, 2008 with no comments.
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Sometimes when you don’t even know how to spell a word, Google and MS word come into play. This is what I usually do. Although the
best dictionary WordWeb has a suggestion capability but usually it doesn’t do a very good job.
Let’s take a look at spelling a word “Gentlemen” and I don’t know how to spell it and I spell it as “Gentalment”. In MS Word I can right click the word and it shows me the suggested correct spelling. To check the meaning of the world I can just press “Shift + F7” but usually this MS Word dictionary sucks. To check the meaning, I would suggest to use
WordWeb.
Another method is using the Google Search Engine (my preferable choice) but only if you have the access to the internet. It comes out something like below “Did you mean: gentlement’s”
When you click on it, it comes out the Wikipedia’s definition. However, I do not really like Wikipedia’s definition too. The explanation is just too long for me. So I would still prefer to use the
WordWeb to check the meaning.
So this is what I did to check a word spelling and it's meaning:
With Internet
- Google It
- WordWeb It
Witout Internet
- Winword it
- WordWeb it
p/s: Too bad the
OpenOffice does not have suggested word capability. I hope one day they will support it.
Btw, I don't think this is something new. I believe a lot of people have been doing this especially using the Google as dictionary.
Written by ChampDog on May 11th, 2008 with no comments.
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Just aware of this after reading the
post from Shuva few days ago about. The
best free dictionary - WordWeb is not completely free. This is their free licensing agreement:
You may use the program free of charge indefinitely only if- You take at most 4 flights (2 return flights) in any 12 month period
- AND you do not own or regularly drive an SUV (sports utility vehicle).
If you do not qualify you must uninstall the program after the 30-day trial period or purchase WordWeb Pro.
The
full license is here. This is the most funniest licensing term that I have ever heard. I just told my friend today, he is shock too! Anyway, thanks for Shuva for bringing the awareness to us. But, the question still will you uninstall it if you don't meet the term?
I'm quite sure most of the Asia people, they will not follow the term. I"m not sure about the Western (e.g. US, Europe) culture. Looks like they really follow? I don't know.
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