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Microsoft has misplaced Melbourne, the four-million-inhabitant capital of the Australian State of Victoria.
A search on Bing Maps for "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia" says the city is at 37.813610, 144.963100 which we've screen-captured above (or here for those reading our mobile site).
The co-ordinates are right save for one important detail: Melbourne is at 37.8136° South. Bing's therefore put it in the wrong hemisphere.
Bing's not alone in finding Australia hard to navigate: in 2012 police warned not to use Apple Maps as it directed those seeking the rural Victorian town of Mildura into the middle of a desert. Apple Maps also sent those looking for the remote city of Mount Isa to an even less hospitable and more remote part of Australia's great inland deserts. ®
What is the best (worst?) IT data error that you can recall? We will discount the old chestnut 'Keyboard not found - Press F12 to continue' but share whatever else you have.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Wednesday August 24 2016, @07:09AM
Actually the key to press was F1.
Note that the AT had a lock which stopped the PC from booting. It did so by internally disconnecting the keyboard. So if the PC happened to be locked when started, and you had the key, you could unlock the computer and then, indeed, press F1 to continue.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.