Work is fun !!!!!!

Working with MS technologies is always a fun. You wouldn't know what to expect when.
Any time is a surprise for you. You would think what you know is what it is. (WYKWII), but MS is so nice to give you surprises and prove the saying - "What is known is limited and what is to be known is unlimited".

One such case we had been working on for days and found that MS really says - Do not think you are a genius, we are here to prove it wrong :).

We were using a Window close functionality in the TimeOut method in JavaScript to close a Window automatically after 5000 ms. This was working fine for around 2 years and more and all of a sudden, one fine day it dies. The window is not closing any more. We did all round abouts even reduced to timeout to 1ms and no improvement.

Finally I started reading the KB from MS site and figured out that this is a new bug introduced with their latest service pack. Thats funny. Service pack is supposed to remove the bugs in the applications but MS' service packs introduces new bugs and they call it "KNOWN BUGS". And funniest part is we all acknowledge these known bugs.

Read this article from MS to know more about this KNOWN BUG
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884768

With Prem and Om
In the Name of Iswara
Mahesh