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Microsoft Wrongly Gives Britain the Day Off

Posted by samzenpus on from the should-have-slept-in dept.

Barence writes "An error in Outlook's public holidays calendar has incorrectly given Britons the day off work. Today was originally meant to be a Bank Holiday in Britain, but the holiday was postponed for a week to coincide with the Queen's diamond jubilee next week. However, Microsoft Outlook and Windows Live services are still reporting today as Britain's Spring Bank Holiday, potentially tricking Britons into believing they have the day off work."

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  1. Microsoft CAN do this. by nurhussein · · Score: 5, Funny

    After all, Microsoft does own England.

  2. My Dilbert Calender by tmosley · · Score: 3, Funny

    My Dilbert calender says today was a holiday in the UK as well. DAMN YOU SCOTT ADAMS!

  3. Finally, a real.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows Genuine Advantage

  4. Re:meh by wildstoo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Obvious troll is obvious.

    Then again, I'm reading Slashdot at work, so you're "potentially" correct.

  5. In their defense... by MobyDisk · · Score: 4, Funny

    but the holiday was postponed for a week to coincide with the Queen's diamond jubilee

    In their defense, I must point out that the Queen of England writes terrible VBScript code. It probably is still being reviewed. If she wants to postpone a national holiday, she needs to get her changes committed at least 2 weeks prior to the hotfix release date.

  6. Re:Still better than the error by damien_kane · · Score: 2, Funny

    That sent us back to 1792. I couldn't even have toast since sliced bread hadn't been invented yet.

    You could have invented it yourself, and then been the inventor of the greatest thing until [insert cool thing here].

  7. Re:meh by Inda · · Score: 4, Funny

    The British are a lazy people, so it shouldn't be too difficult.

    We're so lazy, our smoke alarms come with a snooze button.

    Jokes aside, it's called Minimum Effort Efficiency.

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  8. Re:UK isn't England by Nethead · · Score: 5, Funny

    A peeved UK citizen in Scotland.

    Isn't that statement redundant?

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  9. Re:UK isn't England by gbjbaanb · · Score: 4, Funny

    not so, not all Scottish UK citizens are peeved, most of them are just drunk.

  10. Re:Lessee here.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, great, you're persecuting someone with a persecution complex about their persecution complex? That doesn't usually help.

  11. Re:Even if MS had caught the error and issued a pa by busyqth · · Score: 1, Funny

    I gave up on the holidays calendar years ago due to an overabundance of errors -- primarily inclusions of US holidays in the Canada calendar.

    Wait, what's the problem with that?

  12. Re:This is what happens with kings/queens by Beardo+the+Bearded · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft has people working in the UK and the USA...

    Not today.

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  13. Re:This is what happens with kings/queens by hippo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Exactly, it's taken about 60 years to organize this Diamond Jubilee, who knows how long the next one will take to arrive.