Microsoft pays dear for insults through ignorance
@ 22:04 | linkki
Insensitive computer programmers with little knowledge of geography have cost the giant Microsoft company hundreds of millions of dollars in lost business and led hapless company employees to be arrested by offended governments.
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- The Korean government, objected because Microsoft software showed the national flag in reverse. The software had to be changed.
- The Spanish version of Windows used the word Hembra - meaning woman in Spain - for choosing gender. But in some Central American republics, notably Nicaragua, the word is an insult meaning bitch. The programme was changed.
- Microsoft employees were questioned by police in China, where it is an offence to refer to Taiwan as country or as the Republic of China. Now Taiwan is not referred to as country and all software worldwide avoids the issue by referring to places as regions or districts.
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