Checking my Windows Updates this week, I found a patch, titled “Update to Windows Vista (KB955020)”. After my recent upgrade problems I check every update offered by Microsoft. Well, according to this article, the update adds the words, such as “Friendster,” “Klum,” “Nazr,” “Obama,” and “Racicot” to the dictionary to prevent applications from underlining the words as spelling mistakes. So far, so good – “Barak Obama” is a phrase used frequently these days, and you don’t want to be distracted by the red squiggly line.
Here is where this gets interesting. The update is 56.3 Mb big. Huh? That’s about 1,000,000 times larger than the weight of the words added to the dictionary!