Say What?

[jackofallgeeks]

So here's an odd little tidbit: Microsoft is apparently pushing a 56meg update to
Vista in order to add five words the the English and German
dictionaries. What I want to know is why it takes 5.6 megs (5.6 for five
words in two dictionaries is 56) to add a word to a digital dictionary
(standard ascii text is measured in BITS per character). What I'd really
like to know is why a patch that adds a handful of words to the dictionary
(used mostly for spell-check) is marked as "Important." But what I'd REALLY
like to know is why in the world updating a dictionary should require
me to restart my computer!?

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[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

Nah, it's not a 'real' dictionary; it looks like it's just the spellcheck dictionary. It adds 5 words, among them "Obama," apparently.