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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. This is what happens with kings/queens by MrJamas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Cancel or post-pone some actual holiday because their kings/queens have done something else. It's hardly Microsoft's fault. And this would not be mentioned in news if it wasn't USA or UK Kingdom.

  2. meh by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "potentially"? How about you find some git that skipped work because of it.

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  3. Real story: people are stupid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    So the real story here is that people are so stupid that they believe whatever a computer tells them.

  4. So what? by tehlinux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If the brits don't already know their holiday was moved, why should they expect MS to be on top of that?

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  5. Lessee here.... by CajunArson · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1. Google calendar has the same issue which is more embarrassing since Google calendar is online by definition and can be fixed more easily than outlook.

    2. Apparently you can download an updated holidays file and patch Outlook.

    3. Now that we've had our daily Microsoft-is-the-stupidest-and-evilest-company-on-the-planet-for-not-accurately-predicting-an-arbitrary-holiday-date-change-years-in-advance post, I'd like to see some more stories about how Americans are stupid and evil and some scientific studies showing that Christians are genetically inferior to the Atheist master race.

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  6. Re:Seems a bit late to post this! by Richard_at_work · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Now who is being the pedantic asshole...

    You just cant leave alone, can you? I'd go get that seen to if I were you - you have the larger attitude issue here.

  7. Re:LOL Monarchy by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The depressing thing is that our anachronistic, out-of-touch, hereditary monarch is probably the sanest and best informed member of our government...

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