OMG!!!!!!

[Krakerjak]

Stop the presses!
Notify the authorities!
The world is no longer safe!!!! WINDOWS HAS ENCOUNTERED AN ERROR!!!

oops.....

lol, i think the microsoft programmers were bored and wanted to spice up the old "error" message.
or to freak out the computer illiterate.

sorry, but i found this too funny.

 

[bmd]

haha that's awesome. THE SKY IS FALLING!

 

[shiner]

I was on the Microsoft Premier site today looking up an event ID that we were having because of a problem connecting a test server to a LUN on our new IBM Shark.....I found a Q Article that was our exact problem and it began "This is a disastrous situation" My boss was standing behind me reading over my shoulder when I pulled the article up and he freaked......read through it and had to do some major registry hacking to correct the problem but it still cracked me up they began the article that way......scared the sh1t out of my boss.... [Q}

 

[BD231]

Microsoft blows......, yet I still use windows

 

[DanFungus]

hahhahah

 

[Krakerjak]

This is what it says when i click on more help on the error message....

In Windows Media Player version 7 or 7.1, when you try to play or to connect to a multicast station, you may receive the following error message:

Catastrophic Error 8000FFFF

Is Reported When Duplicate Packets Are Received

Workaround:
Use WMP 6.4


Thank you microsoft !

 

[Smolek]

LOL, I got that error a few times too.

 

[Noriaki]

Originally posted by: Krakerjak
This is what it says when i click on more help on the error message....

In Windows Media Player version 7 or 7.1, when you try to play or to connect to a multicast station, you may receive the following error message:

Catastrophic Error 8000FFFF

Is Reported When Duplicate Packets Are Received

Workaround:
Use WMP 6.4


Thank you microsoft !

Bwahahahahahahaha!!!

 

[NotoriousJTC]

Here's a classic that becomes a part of daily life when using WinME:

<unknown> has caused an error in <unknown>.


<unknown> will now close

 

[Maggotry]

When I first saw your picture, I thought it was just a photochop, but it appears others have seen it too.

 

[Lithium381]

Originally posted by: Maggotry
When I first saw your picture, I thought it was just a photochop, but it appears others have seen it too.

pretty good chop-job! never seen that one.....

 

[N8Magic]

This is my favourite Microsoft Knowledge Base article...

(old but still hilarious)

 

[milagro]

btw...slightly off the subject...but has anyone else noticed that download on the windows update page referencing the Snow White and the Seven dwarfs DVD? I always end up chuckling at that one...

 

[Kadarin]

Workaround:
Use WMP 6.4

Why use any other version of WMP?

 

[Whitecloak]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Workaround:
Use WMP 6.4

Why use any other version of WMP?

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Workaround:
Use WMP 6.4

Why use any other version of WMP?

Cause it's less bloated and more stable?

 

[Snapster]

At least WinXP is trying to do you a favour and say it's 'Catastrophic' to use and it's closing it down for you heh.

 

[StattlichPassat]

That's a real error message? Hehe!

 

[kherman]

Originally posted by: shinerburke
I was on the Microsoft Premier site today looking up an event ID that we were having because of a problem connecting a test server to a LUN on our new IBM Shark.....I found a Q Article that was our exact problem and it began "This is a disastrous situation" My boss was standing behind me reading over my shoulder when I pulled the article up and he freaked......read through it and had to do some major registry hacking to correct the problem but it still cracked me up they began the article that way......scared the sh1t out of my boss.... [Q}

Well as a software engineer, this demonstrates the quality of documentation (or lack there of) Microsoft has. No wonders all there stuff is buggy.

 

[Geekbabe]

The funniest error message I ever remember seeing was one where the message said "windows has enountered an error and we don't know what it is" or similar wording,lol,if you dudeds don't know what the heck caused the problem how are any of the rest of us supposed to?

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Workaround:
Use WMP 6.4

Why use any other version of WMP?

Cause it's less bloated and more stable?

start -> run "mplayer2". much faster, much more stable. associate AVI and MPEGs with it. I leave wmv to WMP 8 just cause some don't seem to work with 6.4

 

[Azraele]

I had a catastrophic device failure the other day, does that count?

 

[ErmanC]

Originally posted by: N8Magic
This is my favourite Microsoft Knowledge Base article...

(old but still hilarious)

Man I never saw that before...That was great. Still laughing.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Krakerjak
This is what it says when i click on more help on the error message....

In Windows Media Player version 7 or 7.1, when you try to play or to connect to a multicast station, you may receive the following error message:

Catastrophic Error 8000FFFF

Is Reported When Duplicate Packets Are Received

Workaround:
Use WMP 6.4


Thank you microsoft !

hahahah thats awesome!

 

[LanEvoVI]

haha....