Microsoft suffered hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, according to the Guardian newspaper website .

On the time zone map in Windows 95 installations, the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir was placed outside the country's borders. As a result, due to criticism from the Indian authorities, the corporation was forced to redo the corresponding section of the operating system.

In Age of Empires 2, the Arabs were portrayed as brutal conquerors who converted Christian churches into mosques. As a result, it was banned in Saudi Arabia.

In one of the Microsoft programs, the Korean flag was presented in a mirror image. As a result, the program had to be rewritten and new copies printed on disks.

In the Spanish version of Windows, the word Hembra was used to determine gender. In Spanish, it really means a female being, but in a number of Latin American countries (for example, Nicaragua) it has an obscene meaning. The corporation had to withdraw thousands of copies of the program from sale and rewrite it.

In the software released for sale in China, Taiwan was listed as a country. As a result, Microsoft representatives were questioned by Chinese police, as in this country calling the island a “country” is prohibited by law. Now Taiwan appears only in the list of areas and regions.

In Microsoft Outlook, April 30 was called the “Birthday of the Queen of Uruguay,” which displeased the authorities of the South American republic.

Illiterate Microsoft programmers disgraced Nicaraguan women