To his mind, the official explanation that someone had extracted the wrong figure from a spreadsheet is entirely believable. A few years ago, Molesoft received a similar critical panning when a bug in an Excel macro shifted the decimal point several places to the right and turned sales of 220,000 into 2.2bn. The fact that Mole was able to sell off a large slice of his personal holding in Molesoft at an enormous profit before the discrepancy was discovered was pure coincidence. A 'bug' has been discovered that suggests that premature ageing may occur if too many users are attached to a Windows 2000 server. When any user group grows beyond 500, the hair of the person icon representing the group is said to change to grey.
Mole wonders how the 'bug' was discovered.
It certainly won't have been in the real world, where instances of Microsoft servers with more than 500 seats are few and far between. The other clue that this is not a real bug at all but an officially sanctioned bit of fun is that Microsoft owned up straight away rather than point the finger of blame at customers. In the unlikely event that anyone is remotely concerned about the early onset of senile dementia in their Windows 2000 machines, Mole would suggest contacting the Ellison Medical Foundation, which is busy working on a cure thought to involve wholesale replacement of the affected parts - also known as a Unix transplant. Contact Dr Mole with any further news of breakthroughs in the world of computing and medicine.