Microsoft, as an engineer, you make me ask WHY
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It's the little things about Microsoft that drive me nuts. We develop on Windows boxes using Visual Studio, and use TFS, etc. but we have to write better software than they do. here's today's forehead slap: We are implementing Apache Tika such that we can allow every application we have access to it as a service and thus we can scan pdf files, spreadsheets, docs, etc. and allow the apps to save that data locally and then search upon it. Once complete, we can literally scan and serve contents for all our needs - videos, images, you name it. I'm checking in the design document into TFS - you know, a Microsoft Word document is getting checked in to Microsoft TFS. They even give me a handy little hyperlink in case I want to preview my document. Rather than rendering, I get this lovely message "Unable to find appropriate display filter for file extension "doc"." Yeah, that's my fault - trying to use one Microsoft product to preview a file from another Microsoft product, notably for a file type that's existed since before there was a Google. :doh: