A Non Warning, from Windows XP

I feel sorry for the programmer who was forced, no doubt after endless emails, meetings, focus-groups and think-tanks to check this obscure non-warning warning message into the Windows source tree...

"The amount of physical memory in your system has increased. This typically does NOT indicate a hardware failure. Contact your Help Desk if you did not personally change your system's physical memory configuration."

Why didn't they say "Congratulations!" or "Good news" or "Ahhhh! thanks for feeding me those yummy ram chips!" or best of all:

"Well, how about that! The tight bastards in IT must've approved that RAM upgrade request we noticed you writing in MS-Word, all those months ago.

"Now let's see if we can get the cowards to consider upgrading the browser to IE 7."

'KLemo' on Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:20:58 GMT, sez:

says the same thing when you **lose** some of yo memory.

i too wish the windows message were more playful.

And i'd love it if they brought back Easter Eggs.

Rather than firing those who create them, they could offer prizes to the devs who write the best easter eggs -- and let customers vote so they can also fire whoever created the worst easter egg.

A sort of reality show, for easter eggs, developers and Microsoft customers.

'krontab' on Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:26:51 GMT, sez:

@KLemo:

I'll second that! The opportunity to get Microsoft employees fire would be a welcome relief from the drudgery of telling everyone I know about how wonderful Ubuntu is :)

Similar idea, from the Tweets:
@wilshipley "Here's my idea for a reality program: we take horrible, self-centered stars into the jungle, then actually kill them. For real. They die."
[http://twitter.com/wilshipley/status/2041042126]

Somehow feel the two ideas could be intermingled.

lol

'Dan F' on Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:16:33 GMT, sez:

Haha, I saw this last week on a clients computer. We had left my USB HD plugged in during a reboot and got a pleasant message saying the storage space had increased and it typically wasn't a hardware failure. I laughed heartily :)

'Mark Allanson' on Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:58:18 GMT, sez:

Let's not forget about this one : http://markallanson.net/wordpress/?p=227

I guess the same principle applies here :)

'André' on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:52:11 GMT, sez:

IE sucks. Why not FF?

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