Why Microsoft Products Rule the World
Feb. 18th, 2008 04:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianBecause I can be on an XP box, using Remote Desktop into a 2k3 Server, and, when I wake up the XP machine, it says:
Caps Lock On as I go to type my password.
Thanking its helpful nature, I press the Caps Lock key (which I haven't pressed in at least 3 weeks, and certainly not today, since the XP machine has been on).
And I log in.
Of course, the 2k3 box also went into password protect mode and came out of it, only now it reports:
Caps Lock On as *that* password dialog comes up.
So I press the Caps Lock key a second time, and log in successfully... only... I find out that now, the 2k3 and XP environments look at the Caps Lock differently than they have all day up until now. They have become out of sync.
So when I switch from one to the other, I'll have to remember to press the Caps Lock key so that it is always off. Because, you know, what I'm doing is mostly case sensitive (and where it isn't *required* it is case sensitive for readability standards).
Yeah, that's why Microsoft rules the world - because their software is so well engineered it can't even agree on what key is pressed at any given moment.
. . .
Don't look at me - I'm not the idiot sending them money, I just work for someplace that does.
Caps Lock On as I go to type my password.
Thanking its helpful nature, I press the Caps Lock key (which I haven't pressed in at least 3 weeks, and certainly not today, since the XP machine has been on).
And I log in.
Of course, the 2k3 box also went into password protect mode and came out of it, only now it reports:
Caps Lock On as *that* password dialog comes up.
So I press the Caps Lock key a second time, and log in successfully... only... I find out that now, the 2k3 and XP environments look at the Caps Lock differently than they have all day up until now. They have become out of sync.
So when I switch from one to the other, I'll have to remember to press the Caps Lock key so that it is always off. Because, you know, what I'm doing is mostly case sensitive (and where it isn't *required* it is case sensitive for readability standards).
Yeah, that's why Microsoft rules the world - because their software is so well engineered it can't even agree on what key is pressed at any given moment.
. . .
Don't look at me - I'm not the idiot sending them money, I just work for someplace that does.
