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The My Two Bits editorial
for September 2006 is titled :
Dear Windows Vista...
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Like many people (I would imagine), I'd
probably be writing Windows XP a "Dear John" letter, if only
there was any other option for the PC. No need to tell me about Linux or
Mac OS: you know what I mean. Yet with the promise (knock wood) of Windows
Vista on the horizon, I guess we should all be writing a "Dear
Windows Vista" letter instead, with our hopes of what this "new
and improved" Windows will be.
We all have our own anecdotes about
Windows, I am sure. Here are some of my own. What follows is some of the
most annoying moments with Windows XP which I personally hope Vista
resolves:
- The "Did you really mean Shut
Down" message. Has this ever happened to you? I click
"shut down" on my PC, with the intent that it shut down and
shut off. I leave my desk with the assumption (insert
"assume" Benny Hill joke here) that the PC will shut down by
itself. So I come back to my desk hours later, and the PC is still on.
What happened? Yeah, well, see; there's this file with a totally
inane, incongruous, incomprehensible name, which "won't shut
down." Asks Windows XP: Did I want Windows to shut down this
program, so the PC can shut down? One may wonder what part of
"Shut Down" does Windows XP not understand. Ridiculous!
- ...Complaint Number One doesn't
include printing. It's one thing if complaint #1 was for a good
reason. If Windows told me, "Wait; you can't shut down, because
I'm not done with that big printing job you asked for," well then
that's reason for pause. I often print jobs that I simply presume have
been sent to the spooler or whatever, and will print with or without
the PC. If those print jobs still need the PC to complete them, then
that's a suitable warning for Windows to give upon shut down.
Unfortunately, no such warning is given. Apparently, warning me that
it may have to shut down program name XJ70Alpha-B is more important
than "the print job isn't finished yet are you sure you want to
exit?"
- The "You have unused items on
your desktop" message. Yes, I know my desktop is cluttered:
both the physical, and the "virtual." I don't need someone
to come to my office and tell me I've got a whole lot o' stuff on my
desk. It's called work, sweet pea. I don't need Windows XP to act like
my virtual grandmother and tell me, man, my desktop is cluttered with
shortcuts I don't use often enough. Well, that's my problem, Mister
XP. Enough with the cluttered desktop messages already. No; seriously.
Enough.
- The "your firewall is
off...just kidding!" message. Does this happen to anyone by
me: you're told with an exclamation point icon during startup, that
"Your firewall if off...your PC may be at risk." So you
click on the icon to correct the error, as Windows tells you to. Only
as soon as you go to the security window, the firewall is clearly set
to "on." What is going on here? That's just weird.
- No popups OR "virtual popups."
One thing I liked about Windows XP is how it reduced all the pop up
window garbage. Unfortunately, those natty online programmers have
found ways around this. You would hope that a Windows update would
override whatever it is some sites are doing, to override the "no
pop-up" option. No such patch has ever been given. Furthermore;
many sites have some totally annoying way of using Macromedia Flash,
to actually "flash" a virtual pop up window in front of what
you're reading, with no way to avoid it. Give these witty sites the
"shut up, please" they deserve, by making not just pop-ups
blocked, but any macromedia flash garbage as well. If we want such
flashy "Flash" animation, we'll tell Windows. Otherwise
we're reading, okay?
Mind you; all this may or may not be
included in the first edition of Windows Vista. Yet with a new Windows on
the horizon every other year or so, it's only a matter of time that the
"best" Windows is upon us. If only that time was right now.
As Always: I'm Techtite,
and these are My Two Bits...
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