Documents Reveal US Incompetence with Word
Found on Slashdot on Thursday, 17 May 2007
The U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority, which formerly governed Iraq, accidentally published Microsoft Word documents containing information never meant for the public, according to an article in Salon. By viewing the documents using the Track Changes feature in Word (.doc), the author has been able to reconstruct internal discussions from 2004 which reflect the optimism, isolation and incompetence of the American occupation.
The editors kept pulling text from a document titled "Why Are the Attacks Down in Al-Anbar Province -- Several Theories."
That's why use plaintext files. No tracking, no surprises. Although I installed Open Office over 2 years ago, I never used it (well, the Excel clone was started 2 or 3 times).