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Re: [News] [Rival] All-time Low for Microsoft's Technical Support?

  • Subject: Re: [News] [Rival] All-time Low for Microsoft's Technical Support?
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:35:05 +0000
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> Microsoft Y2K bug circa 1998?
[...]
> http://bicbickers.blogspot.com/2008/01/microsoft-y2k-bug-circa-1998.html

.----
| On January 7, 1998
| a Tech Support person typed into their database to call me back the
| next day...
| but instead of typing 1/8/98 they typed 1/8/08
|
| Instead of typing the "9" right next to it they typed "0"
|
| Microsoft had called me back 10 years later!
`----

Classic!

Occasionally I get Emails from the Vole (old software registrations),
which are sometimes years after the fact. It's creepy as Hell.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| "[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to
|  make sure that you don't make any money, either." - Bob Cringely.
|  - http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
`----

Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) on sky, running kernel 2.6.23.8-63.fc8
 11:33:11 up 25 days,  9:09,  1 user,  load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.00

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