Microsoft Updates
I’ve got a new pet-peeve (like a had a shortage of them before)…
nVidia has been coming out with display updates for their video cards for Vista about once per month (OK — a little less often than that); and Microsoft has been dutifully pushing down certified drivers to users.
First, the big problem I have with the nVidia driver for my 9800s is that I periodically have the machine freeze and get a message that the display driver stopped responding (but has recovered)… maybe nVidia should be concentrating on fixing that issue and hold off on updates until there’s really some substantial progress [but that might negatively impact them re-naming old tehcnology and trying to sell it as something new].
OK — I digressed… but like I said, it’s a new pet-peeve, and I want to revel in it.
The really annoying thing is that every time Microsoft download and installs a new video driver the system resizes all my open windows and rearranges the icons (shortcuts) on my desktop…
Now perhaps this is only because I have a multiple display system… but reguardless you’d think the children in Redmond might have considered storing the previous state of windows BEFORE activating the new video driver and restoring it afterwards — after all, they are concerned with user experience, RIGHT?
RIGHT… I think the phase would be “experience THIS!”
Microsoft has come a long way in the last few years in making computers easier to use, and easier to maintain… but they (Microsoft) still fails to actually have people who use computers design feature for them… and that’s why using Windows has always felt like it was held together by chewing gum and string — BECAUSE IT IS.
I could do with one less version of Internet Explorer and a bit more work on polishing the overall user experience… and why all these “major” upgrades??? Why not just a continuous stream of improvements to each and every part of the system???
Related posts:
- Microsoft Security Essentials A few years ago Microsoft® provided a free Beta of it’s Anti-Virus solution; and Beta users were provided with one free license to continue to...
- Microsoft Security Essentials Almost six months ago I wrote a BLOG post that was largely indifferent to Microsoft Security Essentials. In that time I’ve begun to use Microsoft...
- Windows – Desktop Search Most people realize how valuable Internet search engines are; but not everyone has figured out how valuable desktop (and server) search engines can be. Even...
- Virtual CloneDrive I’ve tried a number of virtual CD/DVD drive tools for Windows over the years. Daemon Tools was one of the first (free) solutions that really...
- “<app name> not installed for the current user. Please run setup” ARGH!!! It doesn’t happen often, but it does happen — something goes wrong when shutting down Windows or logging in and all of a sudden...
- Microsoft WebsiteSpark A program that offers visibility, support and software for professional Web Developers and Designers If you company has ten or fewer employees, has been around...
- Virtulization, Virtulization, Virtulization For a decade now I’ve been a fan of virtulization (of course, that’s partially predicated on understanding what virtualization is, and how it works —...
- Critial Microsoft Patch — DO IT NOW Microsoft has released an out of cycle patch (they only release patches on Tuesdays), this was released today (Thursday), which means it’s an important patch...
- The Media Home It may come as a shock to you, but computers are here to stay, and there’s at least one in almost every home in the...
- Microsoft Virtual Server and Virtual PC Windows Guest Optimization Keeping a Windows virtual machine running well using a Microsoft virtualization system is fairly simple, and here are the best practices that I’ve come up...
