We’ll just let the screenshots speak for themselves: How to delete a shortcut in Windows Vista in only 7 steps.
MacDailyNews Take: Holy cow! Moo. Is Windows Vista a beta or an alpha? When is the thing supposed to be released again?
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Wow! Sounds like fun!
this is certainly not the problem you want to face with time billing accountants
What’s Windows?
Geez…if it takes that many steps to delete a shortcut, how many steps to get rid of an actual program (not to mention spyware and popup programs)?
This is going to be incredibly annoying for the majority of users…and incredibly lucrative for the Windows gurus who can charge $50/hour to remove unwanted icons from the Windows desktop…
Hilarious.
In other news… office productivity expected to skyrocket once Vista is out!
Microsoft Vista, for when you have absolutely nothing else to do.
It would be hilarious if not for the fact that
all of the MS slaves will just put up with it.
They will eagerly whip out the old Mastercard
and pay $300 for this systematic torture.
How many steps does it take for vista to get a virus? one–open up explorer.
in other news… a good review of VISTA on arstechnica.
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/vistab2.ars
Seems like finally (or is that wishful thinking?) Windows will mature into some kind of OS X clone after all. Somewhere at the end of this year … euh januari next year … euh maybe shortly after januari next year windows might actually arive where OS X was a year ago…
I’m embarrassed to call myself a window’s user. Pass the Mac, please. lol
Goes to show that MS doesn’t think much about the average IQ of it’s users.
http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/tour/4/
And on the Mac, a simple twitch of the finger and poof (third image down)
I feel sorry for the other 95% of the world.
Wow that is so much easier than trying to use a complicated Mac!
Ahhh, my friends the world is full of lemmings, lets call them followers. Just the same way that M$ are followers.
This is not a problem for a doze user. they expect this, they want this, because computing is supposed to be the same as battle stations on the starship enterprise.
The old paradigm is going to take an eon to change for the average user. They just don’t want to know. It is all too hard. They have accepted that it is supposed to be that way and they don’t want to be shown an easier way, because it will mean that they have been idiots.
NOBODY want to be seen as an idiot, so they will feign ignorance of anything other than Windoze. It is a sad world we live in.
Leo
Oh come on. The first step was not really a step – it was just showing that we have a shortcut that needs to be deleted. So there – it only takes 6 steps. See, Vista is getting better already!!!
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I’m waiting for Pt. 2.
How to Delete windows vista in 7 easy steps
I’m amazed it didn’t ask if you wanted fries with that?
Ahhhh! I have RSI and a terrible re-occurring dream….help…
A product called a Roach Motel used to use the tag- Roaches Get In But Don’t Get Out. MS can use the tag Viruses get in but you can’t get them out.
Anyone stop to think that the shortcut being deleted is the user response form to submit bugs? MS put up road blocks to make it hard to delete it so people would submit bugs.
Repeat this with a user-created shortcut and lets see what happens.
hahahahaha….suckers.
I rented the movie Brazil over the weekend. Haven’t seen it since it was originally released on VHS.
If you’ve seen the movie, you can see the similarities between Vista and the extreme bureaucratic redundancies portrayed in the movie.
Perhaps M$ needs a “ghost in the machine” to shake things up.
S
Will Visa come with a 1000 pages manual?
“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity.” Bill Gates
The truth is that the “average” Windows user doesn’t think that it’s the computer that is causing them headaches. They think it’s their own ignorance. They honestly believe that they aren’t computer savy enough. So when presented with the Mac alternative they assume that they will have the same issues as they do with their current computer. Because it’s them not the machine that is the problem. I always find it interesting how savy these same people are once they discover the Mac.