How 8 Pixels Cost Microsoft Millions

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday August 23, 2004 @05:43AM from the debug-twice-distribute-once dept.

NubKnacker writes "Economic Times, one of India's biggest business daily's is carrying a story about how a small colouring mistake forced Microsoft to recall 200,000 copies of Windows 95. This wouldn't be the first time that has happened to Microsoft. From the article, "Microsoft has also managed to upset women and entire countries. A Spanish-language version of Windows XP, destined for Latin American markets, asked users to select their gender between "not specified," "male" or "bitch," because of an unfortunate error in translation." Ouch!"

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Dupe... by dmayle · 2004-08-23 05:44 · Score: 5, Informative

Come one, come all, for the greatest dupe on earth... It's not the exact same article, but it's the exact same source materiel...

If I was low on Karma, I'm sure I could Karma Whore and just copy high scoring posts from the previous article...
Re:Not the first time... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-23 05:49 · Score: 5, Informative

[Insert obligatory Snopes link here]