How 8 Pixels Cost Microsoft Millions

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!"

Comments

So what does Linux do?

[PetoskeyGuy]

This sounds like a reasonable mistake, as it did the first few times it was posted. So what does Gnome/KDE do? Just assume male? :o)

Re:Not the first time...

[Sentry21]

The Ford Nova didn't do any better in Latin America, which Ford discovered was because 'no' means 'no', and 'va' means go.

Not to say the car didn't live up to its reputation necessarily, but that's another issue entirely.

--Dan

QA

[still-a-geek]

It almost seems obvious that Microsoft is lacking a QA department. Unless their QA department is employed by a bunch of monkeys...Oh wait, the monkeys would have caught the problem.