I have a grand total of exactly one Microsoft Windows computer; it lives in my projection room and its one and only job is to talk to the projection equipment and do whatever it does in that regard. The techs can use teamviewer to do stuff when they have to, and the only thing I ever run on it myself is Firefox, for the purpose of talking to the gdc server and telling it what I want it to do.
Here's my story.
It's showtime last night, I go to the projection room to start the movie, and I'm greeted with a screen that tells me to click here to set bing as my default search engine. No window-close on that screen, and no button and no way to do anything other than click on "next".
I'll say here that I don't particularly care if bing is my default search engine on that computer or not since I don't use it for anything like that anyway. But even though I've been playing with computers for almost 50 years at this point (gosh, where did the time go?) I have no interest in and know very little about Microsoft Windows, so I figure the way that computer is currently set up should probably continue since the techs might have set it up that way for a good reason and I don't want stuff to be getting magically changed if I can avoid it.
So here I am reading through this "set bing" screen that I can't get rid of or bypass, trying to quickly figure out how to get past it without having it do whatever magic trick it's trying to do. And in the meantime, it's bloody showtime! Meaning that I'm standing here to start the movie, not fiddle around with a window that I can't cancel on the computer before I can do what I came here to do.
I think it took me about two minutes to read through the various screens that I couldn't bypass or close and click on the various "next" and un-check their pre-selected buttons that say make this change and that change and then at long last this un-closable window went away and I could (finally) start the show.
There were very few people here last night so having to spend a few extra minutes in the projection room and starting the show a couple of minutes late didn't really matter greatly, but that's not the point. Microsoft's operating system was deliberately and intentionally preventing me from doing the job I wanted to do with my computer until I jumped through flaming hoops that they arbitrarily decided I would be forced to jump through.
They made a deliberate decision to not allow that window to be cancelled or closed or bypassed. And that's bloody ridiculous.
Here's my story.
It's showtime last night, I go to the projection room to start the movie, and I'm greeted with a screen that tells me to click here to set bing as my default search engine. No window-close on that screen, and no button and no way to do anything other than click on "next".
I'll say here that I don't particularly care if bing is my default search engine on that computer or not since I don't use it for anything like that anyway. But even though I've been playing with computers for almost 50 years at this point (gosh, where did the time go?) I have no interest in and know very little about Microsoft Windows, so I figure the way that computer is currently set up should probably continue since the techs might have set it up that way for a good reason and I don't want stuff to be getting magically changed if I can avoid it.
So here I am reading through this "set bing" screen that I can't get rid of or bypass, trying to quickly figure out how to get past it without having it do whatever magic trick it's trying to do. And in the meantime, it's bloody showtime! Meaning that I'm standing here to start the movie, not fiddle around with a window that I can't cancel on the computer before I can do what I came here to do.
I think it took me about two minutes to read through the various screens that I couldn't bypass or close and click on the various "next" and un-check their pre-selected buttons that say make this change and that change and then at long last this un-closable window went away and I could (finally) start the show.
There were very few people here last night so having to spend a few extra minutes in the projection room and starting the show a couple of minutes late didn't really matter greatly, but that's not the point. Microsoft's operating system was deliberately and intentionally preventing me from doing the job I wanted to do with my computer until I jumped through flaming hoops that they arbitrarily decided I would be forced to jump through.
They made a deliberate decision to not allow that window to be cancelled or closed or bypassed. And that's bloody ridiculous.
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