Palin isn't in MS Word's dictionary (and neither was Obama)

Benjamin Barrett gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM
Thu Oct 2 21:23:44 UTC 2008


That's and other commentary intended to deflate claims that Microsoft
is anti-Republican are included in the article :) BB

On Oct 2, 2008, at 1:27 PM, ronbutters at AOL.COM wrote:

>
> I'm not sure how these folks' spell-checkers work, but mine is not
> updated=20
> daily from Microsoft Central--it is stored in my computer. So if I
> want to a=
> dd=20
> "Palin," I can. But I would be very unhappy if Microsoft cookied
> their way i=
> nto=20
> my computer to "update" my spellchecker!

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