Windows 7 Annoyances Quotes

“gasp, have to walk across the room and put discs in the tray by hand),”
― David A. Karp, Windows 7 Annoyances: Tips, Secrets, and Solutions

“(just as a novelty flying disc is commonly known as a Frisbee),”
― David A. Karp, Windows 7 Annoyances: Tips, Secrets, and Solutions

“Watch TV on Your TV”
― David A. Karp, Windows 7 Annoyances: Tips, Secrets, and Solutions

“where you might expect to find a straightforward folder tree, resides Favorites (how does it know?) and Libraries. Microsoft really wants you to organize your stuff into these rigidly defined categories, although it’s often more efficient to organize files by project rather than data type.”
― David A. Karp, Windows 7 Annoyances: Tips, Secrets, and Solutions

“Windows XP in a box”)”
― David A. Karp, Windows 7 Annoyances: Tips, Secrets, and Solutions

“Go get yourself a nice cup of tea while Windows copies half a million files to your hard disk and reboots a few times.”
― David A. Karp, Windows 7 Annoyances: Tips, Secrets, and Solutions

“Ironically, the internal version number of Windows 7 is version 6.1,[1] which implies that Microsoft considers its newest operating system to be a (relatively) minor revision of Windows Vista (version 6.0).”
― David A. Karp, Windows 7 Annoyances: Tips, Secrets, and Solutions

“Windows 7 is like a pumpkin: handsome and plump on the outside, but a big mess on the inside. So get out your knife and start carving.”
― David A. Karp, Windows 7 Annoyances: Tips, Secrets, and Solutions

“Take content protection, Windows 7’s copy-protection initiative for so-called premium content like high-definition movies from Blu-Ray and HD DVD discs. According to Microsoft’s standards, software and hardware manufacturers are supposed to disable “premium content” across all interfaces that don’t provide copy protection. One such interface is the S/PDIF digital audio port — usually in the form of a TOSlink optical plug — that comes on most high-end audio cards. Since S/PDIF doesn’t support copy protection — meaning that you could theoretically plug it into another PC and rip the soundtrack off an HD movie — Windows 7 requires that your TOSlink plug be disabled whenever you play back that HD movie on your PC. As a result, you’ll only be able to use your analog audio outputs when watching HD content, and that expensive sound card you just bought is now trash. Why would Microsoft hobble an important feature? For you, the consumer? Of course not. Windows 7’s content-protection feature is intended to appease piracy-wary movie studios, so Microsoft won’t be left behind as the home theater industry finds new ways to rake in cash. And ironically, Microsoft boasts content protection as a feature of Windows 7.”
― David A. Karp, Windows 7 Annoyances: Tips, Secrets, and Solutions

“Alt-Tab”
― David A. Karp, Windows 7 Annoyances: Tips, Secrets, and Solutions

“The observers — members of Microsoft’s User Research Group — diligently note each click, key press, and hesitation, hoping they’ll learn the answer to the industry’s big secret: why do so many people find computers difficult to use?”
― David A. Karp, Windows 7 Annoyances: Tips, Secrets, and Solutions

“OK, here’s the next exercise: transfer a photo from this digital camera to the PC and then upload it to the Internet,”
― David A. Karp, Windows 7 Annoyances: Tips, Secrets, and Solutions

“They say no one should see how sausage or laws get made,”
― David A. Karp, Windows 7 Annoyances: Tips, Secrets, and Solutions