Error'd: Redmond Calling to the Faraway Towns

We had to stretch just a little bit to make a purelyMicrosoft-themed column this week. Gone are the days when it was trivial to make BSOD jokes and rail at OutlookExpress. But they still give us material for some lolz now and then.

Well-rested reader Michael W.remarks "After waking up my laptop from a long period of slumberand logging in I am greeted by the attached error messageon my desktop: You'll need the Internet for this.Which makes me wonder what do I need the internet for?The dialog has no title and it's not clear if it's connectedto any other open windows. Whatever the ''this'' is supposedto reference to stays shredded in mystery providing no contextwhatsoever. But I guess it's at least a step up from those''Internal Error'' message dialogues.And yes, of course a solution can be googled for, but alas mostof those pages will tell you how to fix a network connectionproblem but also mostly won't tell you to what applicationor use this dialogue relates to (apparently it's Windows 365 subscription related)"
Obviously, you'll need the Internet to post it to Error'd!

Snarky Mark B. drily drips"Sometimes even Microsoft doesn't want to admit they wrote it."

Bruce R. punnishes us with this."I guess this is what happens when Windows is left to its own devices."

StrongStewart browbeats Bing."Seems silence is the best policy for Bing ChatGPT whenasked for solutions for problems with Microsoft products.Is Bing scared of admitting Windows is not perfect?"

And here is our stretch. German correspondant Lebensmenschhad a nit to pick about Microsoft's recenttranslation from English to German. He wrote"I joined Ignite in German; all words of Satya Nadellawere subtitled as expected, inquality as to be expected in 21st century.But the button Change to Livestream, apparentlytitled Live, also got translated to Leben.
In English: life.
In German, live and life both are called Leben (noun) orleben (verb)... and the AI replaced all of Microsoft. Obviously."
Now, my German is pretty bad, so the exact detail of this complainthas escaped me. I know we have a lot of native German speakers, soI'm hoping one will explain in the comments. Gutes Wochenende!

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