What the program says: Welcome to the Quality Feedback Agent. What the program means: Your browser just crashed. Hope you weren’t in the middle of a money transfer.
What the program says: Our software is currently trying to recover the document you tried to open. What the program means: Yesterday when you hit the Save button while writing, we messed up and lost the novel you’re working on.
What the program says: The web page you are trying to view contains possibly insecure elements. Proceed anyway? What the program means: Dude, you wanna watch porn so badly you don’t mind about this virus?
What the program says: The program detected a rare exception. What the program means: The program made a known error that was too costly to fix during development.
What the program says: A fatal exception 0E has occurred at 0028. What the program means: Your computer just crashed. We’re clueless too.
What the program says: The video file you’re buying is enhanced by Windows Media Player technology to play for sure. What the program means: You might be a thief, so just in case, we made sure you can’t do much with the video you bought.
What the program says: Sorry, this file format is not supported! What the program means: Due to competition with another vendor we started to boycott this format and just invented our own!
What the program says: We’re releasing this site as public Beta to offer you an early look and incorporate your feedback. What the program means: My boss said the deadline is Friday, so here goes.
What the program says: Our new software version includes a vast array of great features. What the program means: Our competitor released a version 9 of their software, so marketing said we’re gonna do the same.
What the program says: Changing this setting may seriously damage your system. Are you sure? What the program means: Nerds, click “yes.”