The “brilliance” of Microsoft

It only took Microsoft five years to come up with this one. This is incredibly helpful. When building the new Vista operating system, Microsoft knew that there would be program incompatibilities that can cause some odd video problems. These video problems can manifest themselves in strange ways. In order to accomodate these problems, Microsoft displays a message that allows you to open the application in a "safe" window. It then allows you to do what you need to do and switch back. Here is a screen shot of the error message. (click to enlarge) Idiots at Microsoft What impresses me more than anything is the fact that the incompatibility is with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Brilliant Idiots. I still think you need to wait before installing Vista because there are all sorts of unadvertised "features" like this.

Corey Smith is the Vice President of Innovation at Fisher’s Document Systems where he maintains a blog on business and technology.




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