I was surfing on the net around just now, wanted to see if there is any updates on Jean. However, when I visited Just Jean, I saw this:
She closed it down temporary is it? Notice of “Bandwidth Exceeded” can still have a Advertlets ads on top? Close down can still earn money, not bad.
This is an internal email sent by Bill Gates 5 years ago. He was complaining about all the problems he encountered when he decided to download and use Movie Maker online. After 1 hour of trying, he still couldn’t get it. Haha, so Bill actually understand how we normal Windows users feel huh?
The email was revealed by Todd Bishop, Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter, on his Microsoft’s blog. Todd asked for Bill’s approval to post that email during his interview with Bill. the interview is about Bill Gates’ retirement from Microsoft. There are lots of interesting stuff on Microsoft posted in Todd’s Microsoft Blog as well.
—- Original Message —-
From: Bill Gates
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:05 AM
To: Jim Allchin
Cc: Chris Jones (WINDOWS); Bharat Shah (NT); Joe Peterson; Will Poole; Brian Valentine; Anoop Gupta (RESEARCH)
Subject: Windows Usability Systematic degradation flameI am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management groups don’t drive usability issues.
Let me give you my experience from yesterday.
I decided to download (Moviemaker) and buy the Digital Plus pack … so I went to Microsoft.com. They have a download place so I went there.
The first 5 times I used the site it timed out while trying to bring up the download page. Then after an 8 second delay I got it to come up.
This site is so slow it is unusable.
It wasn’t in the top 5 so I expanded the other 45.
These 45 names are totally confusing. These names make stuff like: C:\Documents and Settings\billg\My Documents\My Pictures seem clear.
They are not filtered by the system … and so many of the things are strange.
I tried scoping to Media stuff. Still no moviemaker. I typed in movie. Nothing. I typed in movie maker. Nothing.
So I gave up and sent mail to Amir saying – where is this Moviemaker download? Does it exist?
So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.
They told me to go to the main page search button and type movie maker (not moviemaker!).
I tried that. The site was pathetically slow but after 6 seconds of waiting up it came.
I thought for sure now I would see a button to just go do the download.
In fact it is more like a puzzle that you get to solve. It told me to go to Windows Update and do a bunch of incantations.
This struck me as completely odd. Why should I have to go somewhere else and do a scan to download moviemaker?
So I went to Windows update. Windows Update decides I need to download a bunch of controls. (Not) just once but multiple times where I get to see weird dialog boxes.
Doesn’t Windows update know some key to talk to Windows?
Then I did the scan. This took quite some time and I was told it was critical for me to download 17megs of stuff.
This is after I was told we were doing delta patches to things but instead just to get 6 things that are labeled in the SCARIEST possible way I had to download 17meg.
So I did the download. That part was fast. Then it wanted to do an install. This took 6 minutes and the machine was so slow I couldn’t use it for anything else during this time.
What the heck is going on during those 6 minutes? That is crazy. This is after the download was finished.
Then it told me to reboot my machine. Why should I do that? I reboot every night — why should I reboot at that time?
So I did the reboot because it INSISTED on it. Of course that meant completely getting rid of all my Outlook state.
So I got back up and running and went to Windows Update again. I forgot why I was in Windows Update at all since all I wanted was to get Moviemaker.
So I went back to Microsoft.com and looked at the instructions. I have to click on a folder called WindowsXP. Why should I do that? Windows Update knows I am on Windows XP.
What does it mean to have to click on that folder? So I get a bunch of confusing stuff but sure enough one of them is Moviemaker.
So I do the download. The download is fast but the Install takes many minutes. Amazing how slow this thing is.
At some point I get told I need to go get Windows Media Series 9 to download.
So I decide I will go do that. 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.
The download is fast and the install takes 7 minutes for this thing.
So now I think I am going to have Moviemaker. I go to my add/remove programs place to make sure it is there.
It is not there.
What is there? The following garbage is there. Microsoft Autoupdate Exclusive test package, Microsoft Autoupdate Reboot test package, Microsoft Autoupdate testpackage1. Microsoft AUtoupdate testpackage2, Microsoft Autoupdate Test package3.
Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up.
But that is just the start of the crap. Later I have listed things like Windows XP Hotfix see Q329048 for more information. What is Q329048? Why are these series of patches listed here? Some of the patches just things like Q810655 instead of saying see Q329048 for more information.
What an absolute mess.
Moviemaker is just not there at all.
So I give up on Moviemaker and decide to download the Digital Plus Package.
I get told I need to go enter a bunch of information about myself.
I enter it all in and because it decides I have mistyped something I have to try again. Of course it has cleared out most of what I typed.
I try (typing) the right stuff in 5 times and it just keeps clearing things out for me to type them in again.
So after more than an hour of craziness and making my programs list garbage and being scared and seeing that Microsoft.com is a terrible website I haven’t run Moviemaker and I haven’t got the plus package.
The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind. I thought we had reached a low with Windows Network places or the messages I get when I try to use 802.11. (don’t you just love that root certificate message?)
When I really get to use the stuff I am sure I will have more feedback.
I am sure many people like the movie <<Finding Nemo>>. I am one of the fans of this animation. After the movie was launched in 2003, clownfish (Nemo) suddenly became hot stuff. Every kid wanted to have Nemo at home, regardless whether they knew how to keep a tropical marine animal. And what’s happening now 5 years later? The clownfish expert said that it should be listed as endangered species! Who to blame?
Thanks to His Own Popularity, Nemo Can’t be Found
Demand for real Finding Nemo clownfish putting stocks at risk
Yes, finding Nemo, before we totally lose it!
It was uploaded 5 months ago. I am really slow…… but it is really damn funny.
It is a survey run by Wall Street Journal Asia for readers, Asia 200 survey. Nintendo tops the category of “Innovative in responding to customer needs”. Nintendo has not been in the top 10 since 2002. But thanks to the launch of Wii, Nintendo can now tell the world that, they are back to the peak. You play Wii before? Or Nintendo’s DS? How? Compared to PSP, PS3, XBox, which one better? I must say that Wii’s way of getting users to play the game is really really innovative.
Human is running out of food on earth. How about running a farm on Mars?
“If there is anything I can do to make your meal more enjoyable or delicious, please let me know immediately” – Maid cafe, US version. I have never been to the on in Singapore. How does it look like?
For guys who lust for Malaysian girls, here is one site for you – Most Pretty Girl. By the way, I am not the owner of that site. Just that I came across it and think that some of guys out there may find it interesting.
It is barely a week old. The owner put on quite a few pretty Malaysians photos there. I don’t know how the owner obtained those photos, but not difficult actually, Friendster is a good way. In the “About us” page, it was written that:
mostprettygirl.com is a collection of the beauties in Malaysia. The objective of this site is to create a platform to the beauty to build their self-confidence and healthy image in the 21st century of Malaysian beauty to the world.
OK, let’s forget about the fact that “most pretty” is grammatically wrong (it should be “prettiest”), the only thing I don’t really like is that most of the photos are makeover photo or studio photos. I prefer real life shots. Girls who are pretty after makeover may not be pretty in real life.
But over all, I still enjoy the site, and am looking forward to more updates.
Son: Dad, why do girls feel so great when they are having sex?
Dad: It’s just like digging nose. Do you feel great when you are digging your nose?
Son: Then why guys always show that they are very uncomfortable when having sex?
Dad: Of course lah, when you are digging nose, it is your nose that feels great, not you finger.
Son: Then why do girls feel so bad when they were raped?
Dad: Son, do you feel good if one day when you are walking on the street, suddenly comes 1 person digging your nose directly? Would you feel great or bad?
Son: Why do girls not having sex when they are having menses?
Dad: Do you still dig your nose if your nose is bleeding?
Son: IC. Then why guys don’t like to use condoms?
Dad: Son, do you put on gloves when you dig your nose?
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Happy with your current face, look? Ever think of going for plastic surgery? Afraid that plastic surgery may turn out bad, not the same with what you imagine? How about trying a virtual plastic surgery 1st?
Life Magic is a website that let users trying out different “facial enhancements” online. Users need to register with the site, then upload their own photo to the site. After that, they can proceed to try out the enhancements there. For example, they can try “eyebrow lift”, “forehead enhancement”, “lip augmentation”, and ect.
Too bad, it is only for facial, cannot try breast enhancement……
