Blogitech from Chris Maddern

…one CS student’s views on a blog-saturated industry
April 9, 2008

Speak of the Devil, and the devil he doth appear

Author: Chris Maddern - Categories: Microsoft - Tags: ,

I posted earlier on poorly designed error messages and the very next message I opened rewarded me with this error message.

A brilliant error message I’m sure you’ll agree; telling you nothing of the problem nor giving you any suggested course of action to solve it!

I think that’s been in Outlook Express for 7 or more years now and has managed to migrate on to Windows Live Mail. Congrats MS!

Chris

*Edit: didn’t it have the title ‘Error’ too in Outlook Express?

Microsoft Update pushes 10 updates this Tuesday

Author: Chris Maddern - Categories: Microsoft, Random Thoughts, Updates - Tags: , ,

I turned my computer on yesterday to find a barrage of updates from MS Update… you can see this both ways.

a. It’s great they maintain their products
b. How do they find so many updates each week; and also why do we wait (at worst) a week for an update that’s done?

To be fair, in a world of broadband, 10 updates totalling 36MB took no more than ~1 minute, although anyone on a dial-up must have real problems keeping a Windows Vista / Office 2007 combo up to date!

Chris