My most recent MS interesting experience is when I tried to OCR read a Chinese text. Just a few weeks before, the SW + scanner + computer worked perfectly. Then just garbage. So I tried most of the combinations of three computers and three scanners. No go. Frustrated and desperate, I took a snap of the text using my digital camera and ran the resulting jpg file in the OCR SW. Worked, to my utter surprise and relief, like a charm.

A couple of months later, I hooked up one of the printer/scanners to one of the computers to make a perfectly normal image scan. It worked. So I thought, what the heck, and ran one of the Chinese texts using the afore-mentioned OCR SW. It processed the image beautifully, recognizing the Chinese characters to towards 95%. I have no clue regarding what happened, but Microsoft being <******> in many ways, they sometimes do mend what they ****ed up.