Micropatching Brings the Abandoned Equation Editor Back to Life (2018)

serhack_ 36 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I just wished there could be something easy to replace this equation editor, it's really smooth for people that are not really proficient with LaTeX

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p0w3n3d an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

It's quite a sad story, when people working in Microsoft used to be the experts of all experts on Windows, and at the present moment people from outside know Windows better... It seems like the only people left in there are maintainers...

	▲	jeroenhd 23 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Microsoft last patched the tool by manually patching the binary executable. It seems like they don't have the source code for the tool anymore. There was also a long string of vulnerabilities in the tool, which seems to have stopped being updated at source level somewhere around 2000 based on the copyright in the screenshot. MS should write an alternative to the tool (and I believe they have done so at some point in modern versions of Office), but removing this piece of abandonware was the right call.
	▲	wolfi1 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I guess it's prompt writers