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Really, Microsoft, Really? Throw Your Work Out the Windows

  
  
  
  
  

Let me start by saying I'm not some crunchy, helpless, hapless, whining technology boob.

Quite the opposite in fact... from 1992-1996, I worked in technology consulting and I became one of the first wave of Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCT) on the East Coast. I know all about batch files, command line programming, operating system voodoo, and way the hell more than I care to know about the ugly smelly guts of Windows.

I was also one of the first folks online... WAY before the web. My CompuServe account was "73247,731" in 1984 so I can tell you the thrill of upgrading from a 300-baud modem to a 1200-baud modem. Man, I was *flying* with that baby!!

Alright - enough of our stroll down memory lane... the rest of my 1,000 words can best be told with this picture - the one where you'll see six - count 'em SIX - separate error message dialog boxes on a graphically corrupted screen and totally locked up system:

really microsoft really throw your work out the windows

 

Funny how my black MacBook never does this.

Never.

Ever.

<sigh>

Comments

David 
 
MS just doesn't get it. I just spent 8 days around the clock working on a pitch for a client. MS word 2007 has become so complicated I was about to throw the computer out of the 19th floor window of my client's offices. The MS team has made what was a fairly simple program and add many more clickable steps that you have to go through to do what you could do with a simple click before. MS 2007 is an agony. Like all other MS efforts, they will try to fix it over time, but there is no fixing this clunky beast. 
 
Gerry
Posted @ Tuesday, April 14, 2009 11:42 AM by Gerry Lantz
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