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> Unless every possible error scenario gets its own descriptive error, Yeah, that's kinda the point. Every error code gets its own text description. That's wha
by qoi4j5ioq3j45 3y ago
> Unless every possible error scenario gets its own descriptive error,
Yeah, that's kinda the point. Every error code gets its own text description. That's what I do, what my company does, with our code. Because technicians don't have the ability to look up error codes like engineers can. And even if they did, the ability to look up where/when the error code was generated doesn't tell you what to do about it.
Microsoft is just way below average in this area and counts on its locked-in customers not knowing how much better other companies are.
- jeroenhd 3y agoInternationalising every possible failure within a system, especially one as complex as Windows, into 110 languages seems needlessly intensive and complicated. Many details differentiated by error codes just aren't useful information to end users anyway. I don't think Microsoft can document _every_ error, it's just not very realistic. I'd prefer it if they did, but lacking that, the error code works just fine.