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14. a bunch of useless information on the microsoft site
Thu Jan 23, 2025, 06:29 PM
Thursday

Most famous Microsoft support joke ever.



A pilot is flying a small, single-engine, charter plane with a couple of really important executives on board into Seattle airport. There is fog so thick that visibility is 40 feet, and his instruments are out. He circles looking for a landmark and after an hour, he is low on fuel and his passengers are very nervous.

At last, through a small opening in the fog he sees a tall building with one guy working alone on the fifth floor. Circling, the pilot banks and shouts through his open window: “Hey, where am I?”.

The solitary office worker replies: “You’re in an airplane.”

The pilot immediately executes a swift 275 degree turn and executes a perfect blind landing on the airport’s runway five miles away. Just as the plane stops, the engines cough and die from lack of fuel.

The stunned passengers ask the pilot how he did it.

“Elementary,” replies the pilot, “I asked the guy in that building a simple question. The answer he gave me was 100% correct but absolutely useless; therefore, I knew that must be at Microsoft’s support office and from there the airport is three minutes away on a course of 87 degrees.”


That said, my brother got tired of every update wiping his drivers, which had to be reinstalled.

He gave up on Microsoft and got a Linux desktop from Dell, fully supported.
Hasn't asked me for help in many years.

Good luck with WHATEVER you are using.
People are here to help, and great job looking up a solution.

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