You Know?
I saw for myself how pestery Vista is with respect to telling you when there is a 0.00001% chance you are screwing something up. That was in beta.
The very thought of my primary desktop asking me these inane questions really irks me. But then, I have the unique experience of having my account destroyed and recreated every time I log in to the XP-based machines in the engineering lab for grading.
I also have the unique pleasure of using IE 6 for awhile, which tends to result in the sundry “You are viewing a web page. Okay?” and “You were doing something over http, and now it’s over https. This means it’s safer. Okay?” warnings that I must do a rapid-fire OK clicking session to get rid of.
Then, I try to download a file attachment via webmail (Sun Java webmail, oh goodness) and IE decides to prevent the “popup” from loading, and instead of a popup I get a popup telling me that popups are disallowed. Then I right-click to get another popup to tell the darn thing to allow popups… temporarily.
I click the stupid attachment again and get the “yellow helpful shield of death” in the status bar, which is Microsoft’s way of telling you that solving the problem will take longer than getting around it.
So, I download the thing to my desktop (so now if it’s a trojan I can spread it more easily) and open it in Word 2003, which realizes that my profile has been deleted from it as well, and requests my initials and full name so accordingly.
I allow it to proceed with the incorrect user id-based default and it promptly forgets that I opened it for some use, and instead settles on displaying the ever-so-lovely MS-default MDI (multi-document interface, or somesuch) darker-pooier-gray background with no document in view, so I still haven’t been afforded the opportunity to unleash the cavalry from Hades on the local system.
So I close the stupid thing and re-open it, no warnings this time, and the document is in view.
This seems to confirm the suspicion that we only think other things don’t work because they choose to not work in ways different from how the junk we use every day doesn’t work.
If that makes sense. Okay?
Update: Clicking save from Textpattern to post brings a “Do you want to enable AutoComplete?” dialog.