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> Later, on Windows I got this unexpected popup: > > "You are not here" The absolute best I had in a Microsoft product was this (paraphrasing): "An error happe
by TacticalCoder 4y ago
> Later, on Windows I got this unexpected popup:
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> "You are not here"
The absolute best I had in a Microsoft product was this (paraphrasing): "An error happened because your computer may be turned off". I still have a screenshot of that somewhere. What it meant was that an hypothetical computer I may be trying to connect to (which I wasn't, it was all local) was off, but that wasn't the case. This was seriously WTF.
The second most beautiful one from another Microsoft product was whatever software generating a password and asking me, in a pop-up window, to write it down. The problem was the password was something like:
9mZOvy9E(4)?6b(w(<$KcTU%>9T6cz0Z4YxgQ-<tw035X6S.dLE0[2n0"42`/S=S1{q5{)61s190':&6UHT.4hZXjO6b%l#X7v]~4tIT2Y0._ebFH,>2:G>%*P]7n4"
I probably also still have a screenshot of that somewhere.
Haven't used Microsoft stuff in two decades so it was a long time ago. But it's still seriously WTF.
- layer8 4y agoThe best error message on Windows is “The operation completed successfully”: https://www.google.com/search?q=the+operation+completed+successfully&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=the+operation+completed+succ... …which is the text for result code zero, which is used to mean “no error”.
- bigiain 4y ago“Guru Meditation Error”
- A_Venom_Roll 4y agoLong time ago I ran into a "catastrophic failure" in Word, which sounds quite serious.
- redbell 4y agoThere's also that hilarious Windows Phone error that prompts users to insert their Windows installation disc and restart their "computer".