Vista BSOD

October 16, 2007 at 3:19 am · in Windows Vista, Windows · Comments

Ya know, I’ve gotta be doing something wrong. Windows Vista can’t be this bad. Can it? Seriously, I’m not trying to pull punches when I point out radical design flaws and blatant usability oversights.

For those of you still wondering if Windows Vista is any better than Windows XP, claiming that it’s not problematic in the slightest, or thinking that XP was equally as troublesome in its infancy… I offer the following screen shots.

Apparently, my machine BSOD’ed earlier – with the chat room finding out about the crash hours before I did (as they saw it unfold live from afar while I was watching a movie with Ponzi). After clicking through the all-too-familiar “Windows has recovered from a serious error” dialog, I was passed directly to this one:

And I quote: “The problem was caused by Windows Vista.” I clicked the green link (why is it green and not blue like other hyperlinks throughout… oh, nevermind). A few seconds later, I was downloading and installing the patch as directed. Almost:

Might I suggest a few alternative responses to not being able to install something you prompted me to install?

1. No soup for you
2. Talk to the hand
3. Go play Hold ‘Em Instead
4. Someone set you up the bomb
5. Please don’t tell anyone
6. Hasta la Vista
7. This isn’t a COM Surrogate Error
8. PC LOAD LETTER
9. I’m pining for the fjords
10. But I was going into Toshi Station to pick up some power converters!

To add insult to injury, Windows Vista then connected to FBI.gov, downloaded an old family photo that should’ve been lost in a fire that never happened, and set it as my desktop wallpaper in tiled mode with the ‘Hot Dog’ color scheme:

Windows Live Skydrive: Now Served with 25% of Gmail’s Storage

October 12, 2007 — 06:45 AM PDT — by Adam Ostrow — Share This

On a day when Gmail announced it would soon be increasing its storage capacity to over 4GB, Microsoft’s Live Skydrive’s announcement that it would be upping its own limits to 1GB seems pretty trivial. Nonetheless, Microsoft’s online data storage offering doubled its capacity, and added a few new features to go with it. Public folders now include RSS feeds so you can be notified when friends add files, and you can also now add someone to your Hotmail address book from within the Skydrive interface.

Nice timing, Mr. Softy.