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If you ask Microsoft's MapPoint how to get between the Norwegian towns of Haugesund and Trondheim - a journey of about 700 kilometers using a conventional road vehicle, the user is presented with a rather dramatic detour. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/24/msn_driving_instructions/ Setting off from Haugesund, MapPoint advises the user to point in the diametrically opposite direction to Trondheim, and head West South West. After a couple of kilometers the car sprints out over the North Sea, arriving in Newcastle upon Tyne some time later. The next "logical step" (© The Times of London*) is that Microsoft must be preparing an amphibious road vehicle. That's after you've discarded evidence of the Haugesund to Newcastle car ferry, and the possibility of a bug in the MapPoint software. What, a bug in MS software? Now, since many UK finance departments check mileage claims using the same software, . . . . -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.dcglug.org.uk/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.neil.williamsleesmill.me.uk/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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