Some of the quotes have been copied from that thread.
Microsoft website and forums:
Security: yeah right!
Support / User-friendly: yeah right!Microsoft wrote:As with all Microsoft technology, street level imagery and Bing maps were designed with security and privacy concerns in mind.
From a long thread of angry Windows users wrote:Well, you can't please 100% of the people 100% of the time. However, it would appear you can piss off 100% of the people 100% of the time if you try hard enough.
From a long thread of angry IE users wrote:Every state that still has a death penalty, should replace it with "stare at IE9 with ClearType for 8 hours a day, for the rest of your life".
Even when insisting that a long-running bug is a design feature, people at Microsoft believe it is doing something different from what it really is, and don't seem to be able to read, since it was described accurately:From the same long thread of angry IE users wrote:EVERY time a NEW IE comes out...there are ALWAYS massive problems...which is why I NEVER switch within the 1st 1-2 years of the new IE.
Puppy forum:From a long thread of angry IE users wrote:Support engineer, Steven has stated that "The behavior of Internet Explorer only remembering the very last window closed is by design". I defer to earlier posters here who point out first of all that this is an inaccurate description of IE's behavior (actually IE remembers the last window opened) and others including the OP who accurately explain why the design is annoyingly retrograde and the workarounds are wholly unsatisfactory from a user/customer perspective.
user-friendly? yeah right
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 180#352180thane wrote:I don't think Microsoft has done much to make simple, intuitive apps and operating systems that "just work". It's more like they've added layers of complexity to insulate the user from the computer. Windows isn't a car with an automatic transmission (compared to stick-shift Linux). It's a chauffeured limo with smoked glass. The chauffeur likes to argue with you and every now and then runs off and leaves you stranded with no idea where you are.
Proof MS Office 2007 is an anti-productivity suitestarhawk wrote:Microsoft: "Oh, that? We put that bug in there to increase our tech support revenue. Give us $30 and spend two hours talking to a numbskull who doesn't know anything that we don't tell him/her -- and if you're the lucky one today, we'll actually solve your problem for you."
Windows 7 rant
"Cleartype" rant
User-friendly/just works/reliable? Yeah right
disciple wrote:"Why is it doing that? Whoever designed this is a moron."
"Why won't this work? It was working five minutes ago and I haven't even done anything since then. I've never had this problem in fifteen years."
"Oh, Microsoft's website has listed that bug ever since they got a website. Restart your computer."
"Why does it look like that? It doesn't look like that on anyone else's computer."
"You're a Word guru. Can you remember where on earth they hide xxx feature these days?"
"Oh, they removed that feature"
"The client just rang up because your file crashes their computer"
"It should be possible to do that on Windows."
"In theory you should be able to do that on Windows, but I'm not keen enough to try myself. It will probably take too much effort."
"My computer broke"
"XXX died"
"This file crashes the program so I need to start all over again"
"What is this?"
"Don't use that - the consensus of the Microsoft MVPs is that it is broken in all versions from Office 95 to Office 2010. It will almost certainly corrupt your document within a couple of days."
EDIT I've recently seen reports that Microsoft actually did reimplement this bug when they built the rubbish new taskbar /EDITdisciple wrote:The "tooltips hidden behind the taskbar" bug was invented when Microsoft first built a taskbar for Windows, way back in 1993 or so. There were (temporary) third-party fixes, but Microsoft's "solution" was "reboot Windows" and the bug was still around until they decided the taskbar was too user friendly and built a rubbish new one for Windows 7... 15 years later.Believe me, there is no incentive to correct non-fatal, lingering bugs.
SignaturesRetroTechGuy wrote:I just remember that old Micro$oft slogan: What do you want to reinstall today...
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds:Need a laugh? Remember "Better than Vista" (Windows 7)
Linux Torvalds wrote:Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
Linux Torvalds wrote:A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open Windows.