This time I get dialogs saying things like “Open” or “Save”. No guidance in the instructions which to do. I have no clue which to do.

Bill gates does not know basic windows usage lol

Bill should have just pirated WMM

Painfully hard to even read. I guess when you are the boss you just write however you want.

I wouldn’t mind seeing more. Oh well, the site wants a paid subscription to view more? LOLOLOLOL. No way in hell. The internet has gone to shit.

This is from 2003 for those who haven’t noticed

I had completely forgotten just how awful microsofts websites were back in the early 00’s. Gates saying the site kept timing out or would go down all time is very much true and happened with everyone. Microsoft’s website would CONSTANTLY time out. downloading ANYTHING via microsoft was an absolute crap shoot if it would actually download or not.

I remember having a computer in the late 90s that only came with Netscape. In order to play games like X-Wing vs Tie Fighter online more easily than direct IP connection to someone you had to use Microsofts Internet Gaming Zone. in order to use that you HAD to have Internet Explorer, it wouldn’t work with Netscape. So you’d have to spend an entire day downloading IE and MOST of the time the download would time out or crash so THEN you had to use a download manager to prevent you from losing progress on the download for when Microsofts site would go down which again, was constantly. updating the OS was even more painful as again Microsofts online service would always go down.

If you think Microsoft is bad now, man it was A LOT worse back in the day for reliability.

CEOs and CTOs really need to start caring about their products this much again. These days I’d be surprised if any big tech CEOs even go through the new user setup and onboarding experience and provide detailed feedback like this.

Delightful, truly. Although I think it may be triggering some past trauma lol

The silver lining was that Bill never had to experience movie maker. That would’ve been a whole extra email.

Win 98 was the last good one. Easy network setup, no spaghetti settings.

And he’s correct; installing and removing software via the software tab was comfortable and polluting it with random sub packages is killing its use.

But this shows, there was no canonical way to publish software. A manager oversight from bill himself at the time probably.

Plus this makes me wonder if he was using a different system normally or was not a power user.

Also lol bro owning means you pass the issue to your team and rake in the promotion when they fixed it.

My windows “start” menu takes at least a full minute to open. Then, when I select, say, Control Panel, it takes another full minute (it opens quickly but is initially blank).

I’m not a programmer or even smart, but isn’t that absolute shit? I’ve used Commodores, Apple II, Macs, 386, 486, have used windows since first job (I don’t remember my first Windows version, but it played Tetris in color. Three? haha 3)

Menus have always worked before.

My next laptop will be linux Mint because I like mint ice cream. Does it have menus that open? I am super excited.

I apologize but it made me really mad and now i feel better.