Microsoft blunders

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tontontonton
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
C|Net article



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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.



OOPS!



I also can't believe they shipped Windows to India with Kashmir as non-Indian territory.

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  • Reply 1 of 3
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    For a while Mercedes Benz was shipping cars to the Middle East that had GPS locators and left Israel off the map.
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    sparhawksparhawk Posts: 134member
    was fun reading that article and yes, not very smart mistakes either...

    it does almost seem sometimes you need an expert on every darn country in the world, so you might prevent some offending here and there... MS is big enough though and they have offices anywhere...they should have checked with there local offices if there are any bugs/offending items in new releases. Some are hard to spot though....
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    a_greera_greer Posts: 4,594member
    Microsoft Blunders, sounds like the next office app, codenamed BOB 2.0
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