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The day Doctor Watson called the doctor

Vole's post-mortem debugger, bugged to death
By Fernando Cassia
Mon Apr 30 2007, 12:27
IMAGINE my surprise when the simple act of double clicking on the N800 software updater on my fully patched up Win XP SP2 brought me a notice about the death of Microsoft's famous "Doctor Watson"

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The benevolent Dr. Watson is supposed to appear immediately after a program crashes, but this time it was itself (himself? ;) the one that took a dive. Apparently when something like this happens, there is no secondary doctor on alert awaiting to rescue poor Watson, not even Mr. Sherlock Holmes is nearby. The results about Watson's passing are then discreetly sent over to the Vole's headquarters in Redmondia for careful analysis, we guess.

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At least Microsoft has a sense of humour to brighten up our Mondays. µ

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