OT: Things have changed.....MS unbelievable oversight....

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010, Fairlight wrote:
>Okay, one...can I frame this post of yours, John?  Please?  :)  I never
>thought I'd see the day...
>
>That said, even though I positively hate deletion confirmations, even I
>would have issues with what you cite.  Mostly because nevermind the mouse,
>I hit Windows-Key and then U to start, say, Unreal Tournament 3.  Because
>the start menu stuff goes in alphabetical order.  But if my Unreal wasn't
>pinned, and I used something else more often and Unreal fell off, suddenly
>I'd be shutting down instead of trying to play Unreal.
>
>Major design failure at MS, there, mouse -or- keyboard.

Perhaps shutdowns should only be done from the command line, not
using a GUI?  Even then, that's not foolproof as I heard loud
screams from my wife's office when I rebooted the Xenix machine
as she was typing on a terminal.

>Microsoft:  Proving that a company no longer needs to release an OS with
>80,000 known bugs at release; now they can make do with ONE BIG ONE.

SCO made ONE BIG ONE on an OpenServer release where all directories had 777
permissions.  I pointed this out (loudly) when I got the FCS disks, and, to
their credit, they stopped production and fixed it immediately.

Bill
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