Windows user impressions

Posted by martin on 1 Jun 2002.

Windows is more user-friendly than ever...

A message box with only an OK button (no text at all)

Note: This is a real life screenshot
Just hit OK and don't ask what will happen. Apparently this is what Microsoft call an information dialog box.

Did you know that it is not a good thing to keep files with the same names in different directories. Why use directories at all then?

You can't open a document with the same name even if it is in a different directory

Another great story happened when I was to install Netscape Communicator 4.6 and just to try it unselected all of the components and the truth came before my very eyes, it requires just 2850KB of hard disk space if you don't want to install anything. And it seems that it doesn't like long names also.

Netscape installation requires just 2850KB of hard disk space if you don't want to intall anything

And here are some quotes from documentation/readme's:

...disable all software-based and hardware-based anti-virus applications before running Windows Setup. Re-enable any anti-virus applications after setup is complete.
Microsoft Windows Installation Tips

Q: What do you call a program which overwrites your master boot record without asking you if it should do so?
A: A master boot record virus.

Windows 98 provides...
- FAT32 volumes cannot be accessed if the computer is started using another operating system.
Description of FAT32, Microsoft

Well that's really a nice idea to have a volume that cannot be accessed from another operating system, is that some kind of data protection or what? By the way I didn't realize that what I do every day from my Slackware Linux was impossible.

If you do not see a vertical scroll bar, resize the window slightly. This will create a vertical scroll bar.
Instructions on reading message boxes, Microsoft

Nice idea if it is easy to read some text you have to use the hard way, or Micro$oft will make it the only in the next version of Windows.

... you have a partition that is incompatible with MS-DOS 6.22. You must delete the partition from your hard disk.

Microsoft always takes care of your data, just don't ask for it anymore.

Comments

Windows Bashing
by Caspah on 31 Mar 2003 5:03am GMT

why is it called windows bashing when you tell the truth about windows ... but its called marketing when Gates lies about Linux?

Why
by Brat () on 15 Jul 2003 1:14am GMT

its not even funny anymore if i would start telling you all the things like these i experience daily you would die laughing and i would die crying.

Xp user
by () on 21 Aug 2003 8:50pm GMT

windows rox, linux sux =)

Dumb Programs
by Tim () on 24 Aug 2003 9:06pm GMT

Why does Windows always get blamed for other programs dumb things. That dialog box was put out by some driver and it's the company who wrote the driver that didn't specify any output. That Excel thing is dumb; but, it's trying to open two documents of the same name into the same Excel window. Once again dumb software. For Netscape, you can probably blame AOL. That 2850KB is most likely for AOL garbage or something.

Dumb Programs
by Bettawrekonize () on 13 Oct 2003 4:13am GMT

Haven't you noticed that most of these dumb programs are made by Microsoft (ex: Excel). AOL sux too.

dumbass micro$oft
by xcdroast () on 14 Oct 2003 11:51pm GMT

i was using winnt before up until i get the message one or more drivers failed to start during startup or something like that. and it happened right after i completely formatted my computer. Redhat is all what i live for now, i've thrown away my winnt to some warez gang.

i want help
by adel bakleh (albouraq@ureach.com) on 4 Nov 2003 8:46pm GMT

i want way for changing user name from registry windows without installing a new windows

tnk's byeee

This is why......
by () on 10 Dec 2003 6:03pm GMT

.....you get a Mac!

Linux forever
by thfx (josdepornovos@hotmail.com) on 31 Dec 2003 5:17pm GMT

those windows guy say windows rules just say so cuz they havent used linux before, once you use linux, whole your world will change and you'll be a linux fan for life!

Windows and that
by Vags (vagabondicus_nordicus@yahoo.co.uk) on 14 Jan 2004 8:03pm GMT

IMHO, as someone who has been doing this since 1981 (zx80 machine code, tremble children, tremble)...windows 3 9 were/are good os for beginners.

To say that the xp beast is even better than a good pen, a cheap calculator and a superior quality of paper is to expose oneself as an utter oaf.

If an xp disk was capable of burning then it just might find an alternative usage as a firelighter.

Windows is the joke, and xp the punchline. If you submit to "product activation" then you have sold your soul into slavery.

Linux is the future. Linux is freedom.

Those of us who remember the early 90s are really going to enjoy watching IBM, HP et all kick the Redmond Clown when he's down.....

Corrections
by () on 28 May 2004 11:42am GMT

Questions end with a question mark, sentences start with a capital character, and Microsoft isn't responsible for CMI's harmful GUI.

Opinion...
by thorX (zopeck@hotmail.com) on 9 Jun 2004 7:19pm GMT

Just an opinion, someone there said that windows is good for beginners, I think that is ok, but Linux right now is for advanced windows users who want to start with something different, I did that and I was really impressed, but Linux though is not free of bugs, and is not perfectly user friendly, specially for all of us trying to get out of windows world. Despite of this, I like Linux very much, specially Mandrake Linux.

Message box story
by () on 9 Jul 2004 12:41am GMT

>>Just hit OK and don't ask what will happen. Apparently this is what Microsoft call an information dialog box

>> Most probably MS has nothing to do with that message - ask the driver authors what did they mean.

netscape install
by () on 9 Jul 2004 12:46am GMT

Why windows considered to be guilty ifNetscape is too large and have a badly written installation program?

By the way, a typical Linux UI prog usually takes more drive space then the windows version of the same program. Leaving aside the question of how Linux "supports" installing software.

FAT32 volumes cannot be accessed ...
by () on 9 Jul 2004 12:53am GMT

Yes they can be accessed. Dont't forget that that docs were written even before releasing the FAT32. In arhaic Linux docs one could find the things sounding more funny today.

Even if it could not be accessed - what is wrong with it? There are numerous file system types it is stupid to expect that each OS will support all of them. Moreover, I like this Linux slogan "my OS supports 30 (300) file systems". Who needs it? I personally need a single but a good one (NTFS, for example). What is the reason to have different FS on the same machine? If the machine is for work, not for playng with different OS-es, of course?