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Microsoft Correcting Calculation Error in Excel 2007
By Vivek Shankar
Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software maker, is working to correct multiplication errors in Excel 2007, the latest version of the most popular spreadsheet program.
Excel gives the wrong answer for some calculations with answers between 65,534 and 65,536, Microsoft employee David Gainer said in a blog posting dated Sept. 25. The problem lies in the function that shows answers on the screen, not in the actual calculation, he said.
Microsoft has found a solution and is checking to see if the correction causes other problems, Gainer said. Excel 2007 is part of the Office suite of programs, Microsoft's biggest business last year. The error only affects the 2007 edition, which went on sale broadly in January.
``We take calculation in Excel very seriously,'' Gainer wrote. ``We do everything we can in order to ensure that calculation is correct for all cases.''
Another product, Excel Services 2007, is also affected by the bug, Gainer wrote. Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, the public relations firm for Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft, didn't have an immediate comment.
Microsoft's business unit, which includes Office, generated about a third of Microsoft's $51.1 billion in sales last year, according to a regulatory filing. Office 2007 was the biggest design overhaul of the product in more than a decade.
Microsoft fell 3 cents to $29.46 at 4 p.m. New York time on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The stock has fallen 1.3 percent this year.
To contact the reporter on this story: Vivek Shankar in San Francisco at vshankar3@bloomberg.net
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=aetckDSW4Kew&refer=technology
By Vivek Shankar
Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software maker, is working to correct multiplication errors in Excel 2007, the latest version of the most popular spreadsheet program.
Excel gives the wrong answer for some calculations with answers between 65,534 and 65,536, Microsoft employee David Gainer said in a blog posting dated Sept. 25. The problem lies in the function that shows answers on the screen, not in the actual calculation, he said.
Microsoft has found a solution and is checking to see if the correction causes other problems, Gainer said. Excel 2007 is part of the Office suite of programs, Microsoft's biggest business last year. The error only affects the 2007 edition, which went on sale broadly in January.
``We take calculation in Excel very seriously,'' Gainer wrote. ``We do everything we can in order to ensure that calculation is correct for all cases.''
Another product, Excel Services 2007, is also affected by the bug, Gainer wrote. Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, the public relations firm for Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft, didn't have an immediate comment.
Microsoft's business unit, which includes Office, generated about a third of Microsoft's $51.1 billion in sales last year, according to a regulatory filing. Office 2007 was the biggest design overhaul of the product in more than a decade.
Microsoft fell 3 cents to $29.46 at 4 p.m. New York time on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The stock has fallen 1.3 percent this year.
To contact the reporter on this story: Vivek Shankar in San Francisco at vshankar3@bloomberg.net
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=aetckDSW4Kew&refer=technology
