Interesting Errors

Software developers come from various far away places. Sometimes, they come from places were English isn’t their first, or best language. Sometimes, they decide that holding out on important details is necessary, for some reason. Let us bask in their diversity:

That narrows it down to a Visual C++ program installed in “C:\Program Files”, thanks!

Not only is the message box’s title botched, but they didn’t even bother to enter “Their application name”.

I made sure, after I shutdown Windows after exit the program, that I turned off a computer. This reminds me off the signs in the restrooms at school: “Please make sure toilet is flushed”. Meh, that wasn’t so funny.

And to finish off this post, I give you the almighty Microsoft Installer uninstallation script for Symantec Endpoint Protection:

Don’t be fooled, neither the time remaining nor the progress bar actually indicate anything useful. It actually takes about 3-5 minutes, depending on the computer. It shouldn’t take more than one minute, but perhaps Microsoft or Symantec thought a few useless time-wasting loops were needed. The timer on it is so inaccurate, it quickly jumps down to 1 hour, then 40 minutes, and so on until it reads zero seconds. And then it stays at zero seconds for another minute or two. And then the progress bar repeats a few times, each time rather quickly, though. My question is: Why even bother putting the progress bar or the time estimate there, Microsoft? Why not just say… “Please wait…”