[stcredzero]

I think that the point is that using this method with MS Office is one thing. Using it with medical software is a whole other ballpark.

According to what an ex-coworker told me, you only wish all medical software using Windows as an OS was remotely well maintained, tested, and vetted as MS Office.

[pyre]

Moving to a different platform with possibly unknown compatibility issues could trigger bugs in the code that were lying dormant.

For example, I worked for a company that was still coming across data corruption issues from time to time after a move between a platform where all memory was zeroed by default to Linux (where it isn't). Plenty of places were memory was allocated, and just used without zeroing it, and then jamming the whole thing into a database as a string.