Funny Microsoft Q’s
Maybe you already knew it from Slashdot.
A guy collected tens of Q’s from Microsoft’s Knowledge Base selected for their involuntary humour, such as
- “145675 - Pregnancy: Who Can I Send Suggestions To?”
- “303969 - INF: How to Work with More Than 64,000 Children Per Parent”
- “178748 - SMS: SATAN Causes High Memory Utilization in WUSER32″
- “228001 - Network Adapter Does Not Work if Unplugged”
- “838962 - Guests are not happy in Zoo Tycoon”
or for providing documentation for horrific bugs, e.g.
- “216641 - Computer Hangs After 49.7 Days”
- “273877 - IIS Shuts Down and Restarts for No Apparent Reason”
- “222264 - OL2000: Word E-mail Has Same Font Color as the Message Background”
- “152810 - Money Xfer: Funds Transferred in the Wrong Direction”
- the well-known “326429 - The Windows Explorer Progress Bar May Be Misleading When You Move or Copy Large Files”
- the most horrific, “170057 - Dr. Watson Dialog Box Stops Responding”.
But what you might not know is Kraig Brockschmidt’s description (in his future book, “Mystic Microsoft” - link to draft) of the funny newsgroupping at Microsoft’s HQ’s:
A friend of mine who worked as a tester on Microsoft Excel once logged a bug against the cartons of milk he often got from the free drink coolers on his floor. He noticed that the chocolate milk failed to list the ingredient “cocoa” whereas the plain 2% milk did. An intense discussion in RAID over the relative merits of these “features” continued for three or four weeks and involved as many as a fifteen different engineers. I think it set some kind of record. Anyway, someone finally went so far as to call the dairy itself, and the bug was closed as “WON’T FIX - ASSIGNED TO VENDOR.”