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On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, David Champion wrote: [...] > Apparently the Mozilla Foundation, or whatever moniker of implied > respectability they're calling themselves lately, has learned its > manners of irony from "Heave Ho" Ballmer & co. This is strikingly > reminiscent of ~"Windows has detected that you pushed the power switch. > Please do not push the power switch; choose 'turn off my computer' and > allow Windows Shutdown to push the power switch for you. This will save > your valuable data."~ Or whatever it is that it says when you reboot > after it crashes and destroys your valuable data. At work I have a Windows machine. When I leave work I tell it to shut down, then turn off the monitor and leave. A couple of times I've come back the next day to see the computer still on with a message telling me that it couldn't launch a program because Windows is shutting down. There's an 'ok' dialog and after I click it it finishes the shutdown (those times that it isn't frozen and in need of a hard reboot, that is). Now why would I care about starting an application if I was shutting down the computer? And wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that if you don't get acknowlegement within a certain period (~5 minutes?) that the user assumed you did what you were supposed to do and left the room? Especially if there isn't anything the user can do other than agree...why not give a status message at the next bootup if it's that important (although it isn't)?There's stuff above here
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