It's the Little Things

How eight pixels cost Microsoft millions: "Microsoft has also managed to upset women and entire countries. A Spanish-language version of Windows XP, destined for Latin American markets, asked users to select their gender between 'not specified,' 'male' or 'bitch,' because of an unfortunate error in translation."

Despite this particularly boneheaded example, the article is also notable for how it shows how Microsoft ends up a victim of exceedingly touchy geographic disputes. Who'd have thought people cared quite this much about maps (especially after having gone through most of my school career with maps showing us the vast U.S.S.R.).