Microsoft Make Me Laugh
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Besides the known Issues list being far too long for SP1 of Visual Studio 2008 I found this little gem that made me cry with laughter…
2.1.4 Visual Studio 2008 SP1 installation fails when the Windows Vista sidebar is enabled.
but thats not the best bit their solution follows
1. Right-click the Sidebar icon in the notification area, at the far right of the taskbar.
2. Click “Exit”.So Microsoft now make installers which DONT work in their flagship Operating System out of the box… wow that is special…
and then there solution is to ignore it
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Reminds me of a huge issue with EA’s Red Alert 3. The last digit of the serial number hadn’t been printed, so customers ended up with a wrong key. The solution posted on the tech support was:
Enter your serial and try each letter from A to Z and each number from 0 to 9 until it works.
I found that pretty funny ;D
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Reminds me of a huge issue with EA’s Red Alert 3. The last digit of the serial number hadn’t been printed, so customers ended up with a wrong key. The solution posted on the tech support was:
Enter your serial and try each letter from A to Z and each number from 0 to 9 until it works.
I found that pretty funny
lmao thats hilarious trust you to go one better
even the multi million dollar companies make stupid mistakes, at least it kind of half makes you believe they could well possibly, just a little bit, maybe be human…somewhere
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Besides the known Issues list being far too long for SP1 of Visual Studio 2008 I found this little gem that made me cry with laughter…
2.1.4 Visual Studio 2008 SP1 installation fails when the Windows Vista sidebar is enabled.
but thats not the best bit their solution follows
1. Right-click the Sidebar icon in the notification area, at the far right of the taskbar.
2. Click “Exit”.So Microsoft now make installers which DONT work in their flagship Operating System out of the box… wow that is special…
and then there solution is to ignore it
Hehe,
Typical MS way of internal troubles. There dev teams kinda don’t like eachother it seems, and other dev’s hate Vista as well there and thats good news.
Lets just wait on their new flagship windows 7, the cleaned out version of Vista without all the toys and restrictions like they have now in Vista. -
Funny you say the MS dev teams don’t like eachother… I heard in multiple places that they actually hate eachother and compete for the “favors”. They’re aggressively working so they can say they did more work than the other teams and blabla.
Lots of bad blood and unhealthy competition. Plus, things get so large and badly managed that people just do stuff without understanding why they do it in the first place ::)
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Why your using vista, I have no idea. (unless you dont have a choice)
Theres still another few years of support on XP by MS. Extended due to the number of business’s returning to xp after trying vista. During this time im sure vista (or whatever they change it to) will eventually be worth investing in…
Microsoft’s support road map currently says that extended support for Windows XP ends in April 2014.
Tried it, its crap, returned to XP.
Heres a tip for helping with vista installs.
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lmao I love that video, seen it a while back but always good for a laugh.
Ya know, if Win95 supported 64 bit and scaled well, I’d still be using that. It’s insane how much sh!t needs to be running on Vista. Even XP which I love and am currently using, has quite a bit of excess crap. But 1GB of ram just for the OS? uh that’s nuts, and bloated as hell.
