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Funny Windows 2000 translation mistake

Tuesday, 19. June 2007, 16:47:44

While going through some old photos I had taken, I found this:



It's a translation mistake from the Windows 2000 Professional, finnish version boot disk or something. The word "Ikkunat" which appears there means "Windows" in finnish. Notice how this weird translation appears in the middle of an otherwise english sentence... I bet the translators felt reeeally smart after this!


What's intresting is, though, that this mistake doesn't seem to be very well known. Googling gives absolutely nothing on this one. I would expect that Microsoft bashers would've found this by now like most other mistakes by MS :D

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