The Windows Vista Experience, part 2

[cdybedahl]

Windows is very much too eager to throw up dialog boxes. Particularly ones that take input focus and disrupt whatever I was doing before.

That thingy that's supposed to make the OS safer, by asking for permission before it lets the OS do anything? That may be the most stupidly designed feature I've ever seen. "Hey, you clicked on something in the Control Panel! Press OK to let it do what you asked!". "Hey, you double-clicked on a program! Press OK to let it run!"

And the help system? Where the content for several things start out by explaining why you're supposed to want the thing in question? How wrong is that?

Comments

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Have you come across one of those "Windows needs to reboot" messages yet, where the only button that works is OK?

[jthijsen.livejournal.com]

I've got one word for you: Clippy

{shudders}

[dunv-i.livejournal.com]

Mine is personally fond of trying to get me to download upgrades every two days that slow down your computer until you tell it to finally download - and then again until you install it - and then it decides that you have to restart, so press the button to either restart it or ask again in TEN MINUTES (10 minutes is NOT LATER dammit) before finally I forget and go to the bathroom and by the time I get back, it's reset itself and I have just lost all of my hard work. *dropkicks laptop*

(My taskbar also has a bad habit of only going away if you click the bubble - but when you click the bubble, it pops up my wireless networks something when I don't give a damn that it can't find any.)

... there's a help system? O.o