The Daily WTF

Blake had recently been hired as a software tester, tasked with testing the company’s product on the latest operating system, Windows 2000. After running through his battery of tests, he informed management that he hadn’t encountered any issues, and the product was dubbed Windows 2000-ready. During the next several weeks, the product was smoothly deployed by customers—until an installer bug report came in.

“Did you test the desktop shortcut after installing on Windows 2000?” Blake’s manager, Sammy, asked from the threshold of Blake’s cube.

“Yeah, I’m sure I did,” Blake replied.

“A customer emailed us to say that when he chooses to add the desktop shortcut while installing, it causes a Blue Screen of Death,” Sammy explained. “It happens consistently for him. The only way he can install successfully is to not choose the desktop shortcut option, which he calls ‘unacceptable from an IT security standpoint.'”

Blake frowned in

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