Microsoft Knowledge Base Humour

Intro
• Every once in a while when you use the Microsoft Support Knowledge Base, you find a humourus tidbit. Now is the time to share them :-). Also, send in your own! Let's see how long it takes before the page is cease-and-decisted or some-such :-).

Q189126 - "Microsoft's Policy Regarding Missing or Invalid Passwords"
• This article makes a strange assertion on password cracking.
• Excerpt from the article: "It is technically not possible for Microsoft engineers to break the password on a password-protected file or feature within a Microsoft program. The password-protection systems built into Microsoft programs are designed to be unbreakable; there would be no point in including a password-protection system that could be broken."
• See also: Q221157, Q197203 and Q121220

Q140558 - "Deleting Files on Samba Servers May Delete Local Files Instead"
• Or "Playing the It's Not Our Fault Game".
• Excerpt from the article: "SYMPTOMS: When you use the Microsoft Client for Microsoft Networks (Vredir.vxd) to connect to a Samba file server running on a UNIX-based computer and you try to delete files on the server, you may delete files on your Windows 95-based computer instead.
• Here's the fun part: "RESOLUTION: Although this is not a problem with Windows 95, Microsoft has released a new version of the Vredir.vxd file (version 4.00.955) that filters out files that have file names with invalid characters."

Q216641 - "Computer Hangs After 49.7 Days"
• Excerpt from the article: "SYMPTOMS: After 49.7 days of continuous operation, your Windows-based computer may stop responding (hang)."

Q80520 - "How Microsoft Ensures Virus-Free Software"
• Does this imply Windows based system are not "Industrial strength"?
• Excerpt from the article: "DUPLICATION PROCESS: Disks are duplicated on a variety of industrial strength, quality focused systems. Most of these systems are UNIX-based".

Q131109 - "Explorapedia Nature: Earth Rotates in Wrong Direction"
• Well, from the article: "SUMMARY: When you run Explorapedia and use the Exploratron to look at the Earth spinning, the Earth rotates in the wrong direction.".

Q281923 - "Hair Color of the "Person" Icon for a User Group Becomes Gray If the Group Contains More Than 500 Users"
• As reported by Need To Know: stress of large WIN2000 user load causes premature ageing. Heh.

Q161129 - "The microwave says "nachos", but it sounds like "nauseous"."
• As reported by Need To Know

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This stuff by:
• Claes Månsson, first version posted 2000-10-01.