Custom Software Error

I worked for the company that programmed this software, and we had a known error with one of the components that was used in the software.  This error came up every time I closed the software.  The programmer tried and tried to fix the component, but after seemingly hundreds of tries, he never could.

Nonetheless, I always got this stupid thing that said "report this error to Microsoft", which is either a direct connection to a cyber trashcan or Microsoft's big-brother database of software errors that users are getting.  Just what I like to know - Microsoft is spying on us, and not sending these error messages to the programmer and company that produced the software.

Note that the inclusion of this is an example, and I tended to poke fun at the programmer of this software - the inclusion here is against Microsoft, not vTIMAS.