Pete;

I like that story! Yes the bugs came from Windows 3.11 and got into everything. Man did I have problems with 3.11 and VFP 3.0! Crashes every five minutes and then reboot. Then with NT 4.0 workstation and server the world was good!

Tom


>I thought this thread could use a little humor; just as we all suspected, Microsoft has significant problems with bugs in its software.
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>"MICROSOFT'S SOFTWARE HAS BUGS -- LITERALLY
>Thousands of Silverfish Found in Windows NT Packaging
>Redmond, WA /DenounceNewswire/ -- September 31, 1996 -- Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) today admitted that at least 25,000 of its Windows NT 4.0 upgrade packages shipped with live bugs in the packaging.
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>"It seems that there was an infestation in one of our manufacturing facilities," stated Uhuh Yahright, a Microsoft spokesman. "Before the packages were shrink-wrapped, tens of thousands of silverfish managed to sneak inside the packages. We suspect they came out of the Windows for Warehouses 3.11 inventory."
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>Microsoft stock was unchanged at 125 1/4. "Either the market doesn't think this is a big deal," says Skip Bayle, an industry analyst for Poorer & Broker Securities, "or it just shows that people are used to bugs, biological or otherwise, in Microsoft software." "
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>Link: http://www.denounce.com/msbugs.html