Microsoft and the financial downfall
One of the misleading features of Microsoft Office software is that it gives the user the illusion that they are in control of what’s visible and what’s hidden to readers of the files. One example is copy-pasting from an Excel sheet into a Word or Power Point. If you now double click on the embedded piece you’ll see… the Excel file! It is automatically embedded within the Word/Power Point file. A few years ago, after teaching this to MBAs, a student came the following week all excited, telling me how he just detected fraudulent reporting to his company by a … Continue reading Microsoft and the financial downfall