Feb
26 		Goddamn It, Microsoft!
Filed under (Geeking Out) by The Cubelodyte on February 26, 2008 @ 08:29 am

Fuck MicrosoftSince Entourage vanished from my MacBook Pro I decided to go ahead and install Office 2008, something that was on the “to do” list anyhow. I mount the disk image and launch the installer. After the usual oblivious, perfunctory clicking through the license agreement that has probably locked the seventh-born of my eldest child into an unfathomably sinister pact with the underworld, the installer “recommended” I quit all running applications before continuing, ostensibly because of possibly instability due to font changes.

With the exception of Fireworks, the applications I was running at the time—Safari, Firefox, Mail, Terminal, TextWrangler, and Chicken of the VNC— were not likely to be affected by any Microsoft-specific font changes. Nonetheless, I figured I’d wait to install Office 2008.

Office 2008 screenshotBut there wasn’t any “Cancel” button. The Escape key did nothing. Clicking the window-closing icon on the title bar had no effect. Ah, how about selecting “Quit Installer” from the Installer menu? Ignored. The only remedy was to force-quit the installer. How do the UI analysts at Microsoft manage to keep their jobs?

 
  


Comments:
5 Comments posted on "Goddamn It, Microsoft!"
joelcory on February 26th, 2008 at 6:51 PM #

In the great words of Yoda…”do or do not there is no try” or in Microsoft’s case “Do, Do there is no try…”


TikiJuggler on February 27th, 2008 at 3:04 PM #

haha! I never noticed the rollovers on the FUGuy that I so much enjoy. Nice touch.


The Cubelodyte on February 28th, 2008 at 7:54 AM #

Oh, you hadn’t noticed? I’ve actually been using the title attribute in all the post <img> tags for months now.


TikiJuggler on March 5th, 2008 at 11:40 PM #

I! HATE! MICROSOFT!
I! SPENT! COUNTLESS! HOURS! WRITING! A! PROJECT! PLAN! AND! EVEN! AFTER! SAVING! !RELIGIOUSLY! WITH! DIFFERENT! FILE! NAMES! TO! DIFFERENT! DIRECTORIES! IT! IS! GONE!

I! THEN! REDID! THE! DOCUMENT! FROM! SCRATCH! GOT! 80%! THOUGH! IT! AND! IT! HAPPENED! AGAIN!

NOW! ANY! NEW! DOCUMENT! I! CREATE! GETS! F!U!B!A!R!E!D!

IT! IS! AS! IF! I! DID! NOTHING! FOR! THE! LAST! FEW! DAYS! AT! ALL!

!I!
!TRULY!
!!H!A!T!E!!
!MICROSOFT!

HH HH A TTTTTT EEEEEEE !!
HH HH A A TT EE !!
HHHHHH AAAAA TT EEEEE !!
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HH HHA A TT EEEEEEE !!


TikiJuggler on March 7th, 2008 at 1:08 PM #

I had a couple problems with that doc but I did manage to resolve one of them and thought I would share.
Any time Excel crashes every time you hit a particular toolbar item, then you can do the following to resolve the issue on OS X:
• Shut Down Office (Excel)
• Remove the following from the user library preferences - user home /Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Excel Toolbars (11)
• Start Excel

This will now re-generate a clean default set of toolbars with no corruption:) Ya know after I settled down I started using my brain and that greatly helped me figure out how to fix the problem. What can I say, sometimes I enjoy being a bit ornery:)


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