One of their flagship products, Excel , has been caught
making errors doing simple multiplication.
href="http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2007/09/25/calculation-issue-update.aspx">According
to a Microsoft Developer blog:
Yesterday evening we were alerted to an
issue in Excel 2007 (and Excel Services 2007) involving calculation of
numbers around 65,535. The first example that we heard about
was =77.1*850, but it became clear from our testing as well as
additional reports that this was just one instance where Excel 2007
would return a value of 100,000 instead of 65,535.
You have to wonder how many interstate-bridge-designing engineers use
Excel.
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