Ridiculous Software Bug Workarounds?

Posted by kdawson on Monday May 25, 2009 @12:07AM from the holding-your-mouth-right dept.

theodp writes "Ever get a workaround for a bug from a vendor that's so rigoddamndiculous that there has to be a clueless MBA or an ornery developer behind it? For example, Microsoft once instructed users to wiggle their mouse continuously for several minutes if they wanted to see their Oracle data make it into Excel (yes, it worked!). And more recently, frustrated HP customers were instructed to use non-HP printers as their default printer if they don't want Microsoft Office 2007 to crash (was this demoed in The Mojave Experiment?). Any other candidates for the Lame Workaround Hall of Fame?"

3 of 655 comments (clear)

Re:Why do both by neokushan · 2009-05-25 01:14 · Score: 0, Troll

One word: kdawson.

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+1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
Re:Why do both by El+Lobo · 2009-05-25 01:22 · Score: 0, Troll

I'll mode you up. kdawson is the slashdot equivalent of a yellow tabloid whore. Move along, nothing to see here.

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It's time to realise that Abble's products are the biggest abomination these days. Just say NO to the dumb iAbble way!!
Re:Run Linux much? by ae1294 · 2009-05-25 06:52 · Score: 1, Troll

It's funny when you come to Linux from a Windows enviroment and you see how just one package can bring down the system.

I've seen more than one windows program bring down a whole system...