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[LUG] Microsoft in flying car FUD

 

If you ask Microsoft's MapPoint how to get between the Norwegian towns of 
Haugesund and Trondheim - a journey of about 700 kilometers using a 
conventional road vehicle, the user is presented with a rather dramatic 
detour.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/24/msn_driving_instructions/

Setting off from Haugesund, MapPoint advises the user to point in the 
diametrically opposite direction to Trondheim, and head West South West. 
After a couple of kilometers the car sprints out over the North Sea, arriving 
in Newcastle upon Tyne some time later.

The next "logical step" (© The Times of London*) is that Microsoft must be 
preparing an amphibious road vehicle.

That's after you've discarded evidence of the Haugesund to Newcastle car 
ferry, and the possibility of a bug in the MapPoint software.

What, a bug in MS software?

Now, since many UK finance departments check mileage claims using the same 
software,  . . . . 

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Neil Williams
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