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From: Earle Martin
Subject: Windows XP
Date: 23:55 on 05 Jul 2006

    The software you are installing for this hardware

	$SOFTWARE_NAME

    has not passed Windows Logo testing to verify its
    compatibility with Windows XP. Continuing your
    installation of this software may impair or
    destabilize the correct operation of your system
    either immediately or in the future. Microsoft
    strongly recommends that you stop this
    installation now and contact the hardware vendor
    for software that has passed Windows Logo testing.

    [ Continue Anyway ]  [ STOP Installation ]


...and repeat TWO DOZEN FUCKING TIMES. Because Microsoft is TOO FUCKING
RETARDED TO PROVIDE A "DON'T ASK ME AGAIN" button. And it's a modal fucking
dialog, so I can't do anything else until the install has finished.

As if that wasn't moronic enough, the message sounds like it was written by
an amateur lawyer. "Destabilize the correct operation of your system"?
"Either immediately *or* in the future"? WTF? And add to that the FUD factor
of what the message is implying.

Hate. Hate. Hate.

-- 
Earle Martin
            http://downlode.org/
http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/

Windows XP Earle Martin 23:55 on 05 Jul 2006
- Re: Windows XP Foofy 23:59 on 05 Jul 2006
  - too deep to show
- demerphq 08:14 on 06 Jul 2006
- David Cantrell 11:20 on 06 Jul 2006
  - too deep to show
- Massimo DZ8 09:05 on 07 Jul 2006

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