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Microsoft Wrongly Gives Britain the Day Off
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."
As an American, I have a hard time believing there are people anywhere that are significantly lazier then a lot of my fellow citizens.
I know people that will get in their car and drive a block away to the corner store to buy a 20 oz. soda and a candy bar, even now (which is extremely amusing considering many of them bitch about gas prices whenever given the opportunity, either without making the connection between their own ridiculous behavior and the high demand which keeps those gas prices high or refusing to acknowledge it outright).
Not for nuthin, but how is the OP a troll? Admittedly unnecessary to defend Microsoft, but absolutely correct. Where's the meta moderating that's supposed to correct insipid assessments?
Ahh so wrong information should stand uncorrected simply because correcting it is ... somehow wrong? No. Thats a stupid world to live in - if you are going to post information in a public forum, make sure its correct first.
If you think thats pedantic, then I don't really care for you at all.
Oh look, more down mods - seems someone has an attitude problem...
I can't believe that some people think that wrong information should simply stand because it might be "pedantic" to correct it....