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— Jeremiah Peschka (@peschkaj) December 21, 2012

Related Searches: Off By Way More Than One

I'm confused. What relation do the RELATED SEARCHES have to an off-by-one error? Well, all but one seem unrelated.

Bing, why you so silly?

This morning, Bing began returning some odd search results. So, I then tried searching for some things for which I had some expectations for results.



How about HP Quality Center? Bing certainly has something about Quality Center. In fact, it was my looking for licensing information that started my questioning of Bing's results. Not what I expected.





So, I continued my testing with "testing". Certainly Bing can direct me to some web pages about testing.

Kiwi mold removal.

Bigfoot.

American Society for Nondestructive Testing.

Obama.

Moolya Software Testing!

While I'm sure my friends at Moolya would be pleased to be on the first page of search results for "testing", something doesn't seem right with these results.





Perhaps I need to be more specific about what kind of testing I seek. After all, testing is a very broad topic.

I try to narrow it down with "agile testing".

Hmm... Perhaps the folks at Microsoft aren't familiar with agile testing.

And, I'm certainly not interested in going to Alaska for some agile uterus or prostate testing.





Now, what's something else for which I've previously seen results? Oh, yeah; the Lewis and Clark expedition. Perhaps Bing can help me explore the web for information about these explorers.

Hmm... Not what I expected. And, I don't think I can find them on MyLife.





Given that Bing doesn't seem to know much about testing or exploration, I wonder if they know anything about their founders. So, I search for "microsoft founder".  Bing says "No results found for microsoft founder."  However, in spite of having no results, it does see fit to tell me that Bill Gates and Paul Allen are the founders of Microsoft.

I expected a few more links when asking Bing about its founders.





So, if Bing has so little information about its founders, I wonder what it knows about me.

It seems to have found my Facebook profile; and apparently, I am on sale at Yahoo! Shopping: "Amazing Deals on Ben Simo".





So, what might Bing know about? Let's try something a bit less intellectual.

Sorry, "No results found for fart."

Perhaps, I should try some related searches. Bing suggests "Loud Farts", or "Listen to Farts", or "Do Lizards Fart". I always wanted to know if lizards fart, but I think I'll first click the link to see Regis Philbin fart. That's the high quality web content I seek when I use Bing.





These results are making me think I must be the victim of a cruel joke.

So, while I'm thinking of jokes and farts, I put them together.

Again, Bing disappoints. It has no results for fart jokes. Instead, Bing trys to show me fat jokes. It doesn't even have any of those; unless the Raspberry Ketone Diet is a fat joke.

Word did not save the document.

A couple days ago, it was Excel that would not save documents. Today it is Word. Microsoft Word's error message identifies the name of the file that it failed to save, but still provides nothing useful in correcting the problem.

Document not saved.

I have an Excel document that I cannot save. Every time I try to save, Excel displays the above dialog stating "Document not saved." While I'm glad to be informed that the unsaved document was not saved, I'd prefer to be given more any information about the cause and required remedy.

Auto Sync

@artsamaniego tweets: Oh Microsoft you did not disappoint me, I was expecting Sync on Ford Explorer to hang and it did


 waiting for BSOD

Search can't find Search

I've never used Microsoft Outlook on this computer. However, I want to view emails in an old PST file.  I start up Outlook and configure it without email accounts. During the first-time start process, Outlook tells me I need to install a Windows component to enable the "Instant Search" feature.



I click the "Yes" button. Outlook launches a browser and takes me to a Microsoft.com page to download Windows Search 4.0 for Windows XP.  I dutifully click the download button.



Whoops. Instead of starting the installer download, I get a page stating "We are sorry, the page you requested cannot be found."



So, Microsoft failed to find their own search program? Perhaps they should get a better search program. ;)

If I have to do something, it's not automatic

What are the updates? Is it important that I interrupt what I am doing and restart now? Is there risk in waiting to restart later?

How about some information to help me make an informed decision?

PowerPoint cannot open files in the "Microsoft PowerPoint presentation" format

@jnack: Delightful only-by-Microsoft error o' the day. You're off to a helluva start, Office 2011!

If 'Microsoft Office Outlook' is the question

@securitygalnz: What does it mean?? Yes, it is Microsoft. No, it is not home time? #confused

Unable to connect to machine

Remote performance monitoring of one Windows 2003 server from another that had been working for many months suddenly stopped working. The only thing that had changed was a local administrator account password on the remote system.

In hopes of getting more information as to why remote monitoring was failing to start, I start up Perfmon and try to create a counter for the remote system. It reports "Unable to connect to machine". I was hoping for something more specific.

So, I try from a Windows 2008 system. It gets slightly more specific with "Access is denied."

While it is generally a good idea to not disclose details about failed authentication attempts, a bit more info could be helpful in resolving this problem.

Shared?

Submitted by: Manoj Soni.



In "Shared" mode, Microsoft Excel files stored in a shared network location can be edited simultaneously by multiple people from multiple machines. However, this document is both 'Shared' and 'Read Only'. How does a file get into this state?

We have no content for this error message

Microsoft Office Communicator shows me the following error message after failing to share my screen with a colleague.

I click the "More details" link and get very helpful details: "Sorry. We currently have no content for this error message."

Your color is blue

Tweeted by @arclight

Might not work properly

Yesterday, I was prompted by Microsoft Outlook 2007 to install Windows Search in order to activate the  "Instant Search" feature in Outlook. I followed the links and installed Windows Search 4.0 for Windows XP.

Ever since, the computer has been horribly slow. I decide to uninstall Windows Search to see if that fixes the performance issues.



The uninstaller gives me the above list of everything I'd updated since the search install, and warns that uninstalling Windows Search may cause these other programs to stop working. Is the typical Windows user expected to know if Java or their Antivirus software depend on Windows Search? Why isn't there a warning that uninstalling may impact Microsoft Outlook, the program that told me to install Windows Search?

This seems to me to be an unnecessary warning that will only plant fear in the minds of users. If there is reason to be afraid, then I believe there is an even bigger problem. What say you?

Time Travel Tests

I've been working on some performance tuning of .Net tests in Visual Studio 2010. My tests now complete before they start. Awesome!

One or more, directly or indirectly

Thank you, Visual Studio, for telling me that you can't run one or more tests. How about telling me which test, or tests, in the selected context could not be found? How about giving me an option to run the tests that can be found?

I must now, directly or indirectly, seek and find the unspecified that could not be found. ;)

Or, perhaps, and likely, this message means that there are no tests in the selected context. If so, one or more users (directly or indirectly) using Visual Studio are likely to be confused by this message.

The Door is Ajar

I knew my hard disk has windows, but not a door. ;)

Hi, my name is Joe

I work at a button factory -- pressing OK on Excel dialogs. ;)

Cannot delete file?

I tell PowerPoint to open a file and it displays an error dialog stating that it cannot delete a file. What!?



Why is PowerPoint trying to delete a file? I told it to open a file. I clicked OK and my file opened.  I have no idea what it was trying to delete.