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Lost in Translation?
by IconoclasT at 6:52 pm EDT, Aug 19, 2004

When coloring in 800,000 pixels on a map of India, Microsoft colored eight of them a different shade of green to represent the disputed Kashmiri territory. The difference in greens meant Kashmir was shown as non-Indian, and the product was promptly banned in India. Microsoft was left to recall all 200,000 copies of the offending Windows 95 operating system software to try and heal the diplomatic wounds. "It cost millions," Edwards said.
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Microsoft has also managed to upset women and entire countries. A Spanish-language version of Windows XP, destined for Latin American markets, asked users to select their gender between "not specified," "male" or "bitch," because of an unfortunate error in translation.

Two Words Bill... Babel Fish.


 
RE: Lost in Translation?
by biochik007 at 7:38 pm EDT, Aug 19, 2004

IconoclasT wrote:
] When coloring in 800,000 pixels on a map of India,
] Microsoft colored eight of them a different shade of green to
] represent the disputed Kashmiri territory. The difference in
] greens meant Kashmir was shown as non-Indian, and the product
] was promptly banned in India. Microsoft was left to recall all
] 200,000 copies of the offending Windows 95 operating system
] software to try and heal the diplomatic wounds. "It cost
] millions," Edwards said.
] ...
] Microsoft has also managed to upset women and entire
] countries. A Spanish-language version of Windows XP, destined
] for Latin American markets, asked users to select their gender
] between "not specified," "male" or "bitch," because of an
] unfortunate error in translation.

]
] Two Words Bill... Babel Fish.

Atta boy... Way to go Bill! :/


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