You have to Start to Shutdown?
I can't find the blog entry, but somewhere over at The Old New Thing (book | bio1) I remember it being mentioned that the reason the action of clicking the "Start" button to Shutdown your PC seems so counter-intuitive is that not doing so was even less intuitive. Anyway - that's a complete aside.
A more recent entry mentions in passing someone's whining about the fact that there are a lot of ways to shutdown Windows Vista, particularly the length of the fly-out menu that gives the "advanced" options. Apparently it's too many to choose from. Given that by the time you get to that menu you already know (99% of the time2) what option you want, it's not so much a choice, is it? The same people who whinge about complexity are the ones that then whinge about things being "hidden" when simplification occurs. Grumble, grumble.
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1 As with anything else on Wikipedia, this could be an utterly incorrect fiction that bears no actual similarity to Raymond Chen.
2 Yeah, a made-up statistic. Most of them are though? No? Just ask the British Government about their statistics ;)
A more recent entry mentions in passing someone's whining about the fact that there are a lot of ways to shutdown Windows Vista, particularly the length of the fly-out menu that gives the "advanced" options. Apparently it's too many to choose from. Given that by the time you get to that menu you already know (99% of the time2) what option you want, it's not so much a choice, is it? The same people who whinge about complexity are the ones that then whinge about things being "hidden" when simplification occurs. Grumble, grumble.
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1 As with anything else on Wikipedia, this could be an utterly incorrect fiction that bears no actual similarity to Raymond Chen.
2 Yeah, a made-up statistic. Most of them are though? No? Just ask the British Government about their statistics ;)
