Thanks to a little prodding from Joel Spolsky, Moishe Lettvin tells us exactly who is to blame for the broken "power button" in Window Vista-- or, why I have to dig around through a labyrinth of switches and knobs1 in the Control Panel to get the power button to do what most of mankind has agreed that the power button should do: to turn something that is on off! I hope they got hundreds of bug reports for that idiotic design decision. I sent in my share.
Between this, and the nice steady stream of class action settlement letters I keep getting by virtue of the great hardware of the machines I purchase (come back tomorrow for that posting -- but as a preview, take a read at my earlier luck with computers), maybe I should risk it with another manufacturer.
But only if that Dodgeball kid is fired as their promotional spokesperson. He's just so smug, I'm almost inspired to write a If I Did It... book myself!
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1. I'm not kidding! It's a nine-step operation to make the off-button act right!
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Risk it! Risk it!
They went Core 2. Now you just have to hold up your end of the bargain.
Posted by: Joe Coughlin | 11/27/2006 at 05:10 PM