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It’s Not A Bug, It’s A Feature…

August 24th, 2007 | Category: Laugh Out Loud, Techie Stuff

Feature or Bug?
This was just too good to not steal from TechRepublic blogger Jay Garmon. Billy Gates and the Redmond Banditos won’t like this a bit. They’ll probably go buy up the FEATURE vanity plate rights in the other 49 states.

[UPDATE: 08/25/07. For the non-techies among you, an apology and an explanation: It seems every time Microsoft comes out with a new product, update, or service pack, there are things that do not work as expected. These are the software potholes we mere mortals call bugs, but Microsoft claims that oh, no, they are features... Yeah, right...]

5 Comments so far

  1. Music City Bloggers » Blog Archive » Features August 25th, 2007 2:58 pm

    [...] Winston at Nobody Asked informs folks like me what “features” means to the Microsoft crew. [...]

  2. andy August 25th, 2007 3:02 pm

    Remember the earliest days of microprocessors, Winston? Before the Pentium, before the 486, 386, 286… when there was the humble 8080? I went to seminar back in those days of antiquity, presented by one Adam Osborne, who as far as I remember was quite a pioneer of micros in those early days. I well remember as he explained some of the, er, quainter peculiarities of the device, how he introduced the term ‘feature’ to describe something which it did, which the designers hadn’t intended, but which they couldn’t design out. Plus ca change, as they say….

  3. Em August 26th, 2007 8:08 am

    I’ve tried using the “it’s a feature” line on some of my staff when they run into problems. They quickly inform me it is a feature that should have been omitted! LOL

  4. Stu Savory August 26th, 2007 11:25 pm

    The early bugs had a two-pane rear windows. This car has a one-piece one, which obviously gives you a Vista ;-)

  5. Liz August 27th, 2007 8:36 am

    It took a minute for me to work this one out! Very clever.

    Does Microsoft really call them features? You can fool some of the people some of the time etc