troubleshooters – for hiding original design laziness
Grumble mumble Swear foot stomp For goodness sake Microsoft if you’re still going to fail after decades of practice providing services then at least give me empathetic failure message not this ARCHAIC...
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One of the many Apple fanboy’s in my life really enjoys showing me every error message that his ancient PC produces. Todays example is a classic. We tried a few technical fix it things and managed to...
View Articlethe blue flash of colonel panic
The Blue flash of colonel panic is not a military award, one of the X-men, X-women, a Transformer, or other superhero. Windows 7 scary classic! The file dump from Windows 7 “Blue Screen Of Death...
View Articleuntouched
The second time that I tried to login to my ‘Outlook.com’ account this error message was presented and the experience hung Firefox. How long have Microsoft been designing sign-in processes? How many...
View Articlemore ungraceful failure messages
Sparkle is running smoothly but there appear to be a few hiccups among the internet services Sparkle uses. Here’s a selection of recent bumps from McAfee, Optimalworkshop and SharePoint services and...
View Articlewindows crashes the morning
Just in case you thought that all my story blog posts mean that I’m neglecting my role of publicising details of software failures, I thought I’d throw this little message in the pot. Arriving at work...
View Article4 hour detour
20 minutes out of Crewe, the train doesn’t stop as scheduled: wendy: I think I’ve gotten on the wrong train (gotten = US english) train manager: where do you want to go? wendy: Wilmslow train manager:...
View ArticleOrdinal 466 (559) could not be located in the dynamic link library
After an irritating long windows update when I was trying to leave work on time, my laptop starts with these trust inspiring messages: Several friends experience similar messages after their updates....
View Articleyou can’t go back. go home and start again
<RANT WARNING – Apple fanboys, and people who love positivity should leave now> Over the last 3 years I’ve been lucky(?) enough to have 3 different smart phones as my main phone: HTC Desire...
View ArticleSurface Super FAIL
The default (Microsoft) App for mail crashes everytime I paste a link into an email, which is for most emails calendar crashes every time I paste a link into a calendar invitation Surface shipped too...
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