[ale] OT: another high quality MS product

Jim jcphil at mindspring.com
Mon Oct 14 12:50:30 EDT 2002


On Monday 14 October 2002 12:29 pm, Joseph A Knapka wrote:
> My daughter was just reading an article in MS Encarta,
> which contains the following text:
>
> "In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt, the presidential candidate
> for the Progressive party, was shot at close range by
> a would be assassinator."
>
> Sheesh. Apparently they audit their encyclopedia entries
> to the same exacting standards as they do their code.

I suppose it got past their spell checker program.


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