Every day is frikin’ Microsoft day …

Hugh Macleod is having problems with his WiFi.  He blames Microsoft software – maybe, maybe not.  Most WiFi problems I see have zero to do with Microsoft and are down instead to dodgy settings, dodgy hardware or just plain set up wrong.  Networking is complex.  If people think that networking is hard with XP let me invite them onto my time machine and take them back to Windows 3.1 … now that could be difficult!  Friendly dialog boxes and wizards can only go so far in covering the infinite number of things that can go wrong.

However, he does make a good point about what Job One at Microsoft should be.  I don’t think that users want all that much “Wow!”, if they did, they wouldn’t want so much of it switched off and disabled later (I could list hundreds of things here what once were “Wow!” that now users want rid of).  What users want is for Microsoft products to work so they can.  Period.  Microsoft is blurring the line too much at times between the PC as a tool and the PC as an entertainment system.  If you can’t get your DVD to work, that annoying.  If you can’t get your work done, that serious.

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