Products We'd Wish Microsoft Would Deliver

**Orangeman** · October 5th, 2004, 02:08 PM

http://www.mcpmag.com/columns/articl...itorialsID=807

How about you. What would you like Microsoft to deliver?

I'd like to see Microsoft deliver a Universal Compatibility Device so that we'd no longer have to worry about compatibility issues.

**gazzak** · October 5th, 2004, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by Orangeman

http://www.mcpmag.com/columns/articl...itorialsID=807

How about you. What would you like Microsoft to deliver?

I'd like to see Microsoft deliver a Universal Compatibility Device so that we'd no longer have to worry about compatibility issues.

I wondered what they did to Saddam, after seeing the picture on that link I now know!

**WebHead** · October 5th, 2004, 02:32 PM

That was great! I would really like the last item to happen. No seriously,.. I really would like the last item to happen,.. and soon!

**NooNoo** · October 5th, 2004, 03:29 PM

Let me know when it does the ironing and I am in!

**gizmo1_1** · October 5th, 2004, 08:01 PM

Originally Posted by Orangeman

How about you. What would you like Microsoft to deliver?

How about an operating system that ****in' WORKS????

**GrandDad** · October 5th, 2004, 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by WebHead

That was great! I would really like the last item to happen. No seriously,.. I really would like the last item to happen,.. and soon!

We all wished and not just M$ stuff .

**+Daemon+** · October 6th, 2004, 10:11 AM

to deliver me money

**corturbra** · October 6th, 2004, 10:30 AM

Option 1 would be soooo good, so long as he would back date it to the days of Windows 95 on 13 floppies... where it would fail on disk 12 and then start back again on disk 1, I should be able to retire on the refunds for that alone.....

I'd also like an office product where rather than right clicking and hiding that f***in annoying screen tapping paper clip, you could flame it and melt it forever... how guilty does it make you feel when it says "You've hidden me 3 times now, would you like me to go away forever, sniff"

After all what does it actually do? You ask it a question and it may as well be a 5 year old looking down at the floor, going "I don't know"...... Or perhaps they could get it to answer a question, when you ask it "how do I change the default form for creating a new message in Outlook" it would answer with "to change the default form..." instead of "how to create a new message" or "working with e-mails"

grrrr don't get me started people!

**gizmo1_1** · October 6th, 2004, 11:03 AM

Originally Posted by [url

http://www.mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=807[/url]

1. The Bill Gates Reimbursement Machine
Here's how it would work:

* Enter all time spent on Windows updates, patches, new ways of doing things that are different but not necessarily better and clearly nothing you need.
* Enter value of your time per hour.
* Machine calculates value of time wasted.
* Bill Gates issues you a check and mails it with an apology.

This would be wonderful if it included the hundreds of ours on the phone with Microsoft Activation Service becuase a client tried to install XP too many times, the hours spent locating trumpet winsock on windows 3.1, the thousands of times I banged my head on my desk looking for the service that is runnig in the background, but not in the service list. The days spent looking up the cryptic clsid references in the system registry. The hours spent manipulating M$ ftp service to set permissions. RANT RANT RANT RANT etc .c.c .

U get the picture.

The only thing I have to thank Bill Gates for is JOB SECURITY. Because as long as M$ exists WE WILL ALL REMAIN EMPLOYEED.

**corturbra** · October 6th, 2004, 11:05 AM

Originally Posted by gizmo1_1

This would be wonderful if it included the hundreds of ours on the phone with Microsoft Activation Service becuase a client tried to install XP too many times, the hours spent locating trumpet winsock on windows 3.1, the thousands of times I banged my head on my desk looking for the service that is runnig in the background, but not in the service list. The days spent looking up the cryptic clsid references in the system registry. The hours spent manipulating M$ ftp service to set permissions. RANT RANT RANT RANT etc .c.c .

U get the picture.

The only thing I have to thank Bill Gates for is JOB SECURITY. Because as long as M$ exists WE WILL ALL REMAIN EMPLOYEED.

That's why I stopped after just bitching on the Office Assistant..... yes I guess he keeps me employed, but I hate my job, so therefore I hate him.