I hate Microsoft Windows with a passion, but that in and of itself is too easy to be worthy of mention here. Fish. Barrel. Dynamite. Boom!
However, the Windows box I am forced to use at work (for testing certain kinds of streaming media, players for which do not exist on Linux) recently prompted a much more detailed and specific hate. First, the annoying "Updates are available for your computer. Click here to install them" bubble would appear, repeatedly, every so often. Finally, being sufficiently annoyed with the bubble, I clicked there, and installed them. It finished by saying something to the effect of "Windows must now restart your computer for these changes to take effect." The dialog had two buttons: "Restart now" and "Restart later". Well, I was not ready to "restart now" so I clicked "restart later". Apparently, that is not the right name for the button. It should instead be named, "Come back in no more than two minutes, and ask me again, and again, and AGAIN!" AAAARGGGH! I can't stand it any more! Why doesn't it occur to the folks at Microsoft that I just might be, yanno, busy right now, and not really ready to "restart now". How about interpreting "restart later" to mean, sleep for an hour (or more), then try again. Better still, why not let me specify a time when I won't mind if it restarts, like oh, say, 3AM? But no, Microsoft knows better than me how urgent this is, that I need to restart *now* doggone it, *NOW*! "Oh, cut the bleeding heart crap, will ya? We've all got our switches, lights, and knobs to deal with, Striker. I mean, down here there are literally hundreds and thousands of blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping and flashing - they're *flashing* and they're *beeping*. I can't stand it anymore! They're *blinking* and *beeping* and *flashing*!" -- Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com> 90% of everything is crud. And for software the other 10% is worse. -- Nicholas Clark
