Re: Windows Automatic Updates (was: Re: MP3 players? Linux? ...)

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From: Yoz Grahame
Subject: Re: Windows Automatic Updates (was: Re: MP3 players? Linux? ...)
Date: 00:58 on 03 May 2005
On 5/3/05, Earle Martin <hates-software@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>=20
> "Updating your computer is almost complete. Your computer needs to be
> restarted for the updates to take effect. Windows will restart your compu=
ter
> automatically in 5:00 minutes."
>=20
> The time figure was counting down, and a progress bar was creeping up to
> complete. Underneath it asked, "Do you want to restart your computer now?=
"
> And offered two buttons, "Restart Now" and "Restart Later". So far so muc=
h
> the situation you describe. Only in my case, the "Restart Later" button w=
as
> grayed out! So I had no choice but to drag the damn thing to the edge of =
the
> screen - because it insisted on staying in front - and hurriedly closing
> down all the stuff I was using. Thank fuck I do just about everything in =
a
> remote screen session.

Wow. That's just astonishingly evil. I should count myself lucky that
I my user account has Administrator rights so I never get trapped in
*quite* such hell.

There's a favourite bit in "About Face - Essentials of User Interface
Design" by Alan Cooper (UI god, ex-Microsoft) where he describes how
most novice users see dailog boxes:

----------------------
|                    |
| Format hard drive? |
|                    |
| [ Now ]  [ Later ] |
|                    |
----------------------

... and those bastards in Redmond ACTUALLY WENT AND IMPLEMENTED IT!

-- Yoz
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