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lucinos έγραψε:
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 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.

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 some-
thing 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 pro-
grams 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 experi-
ences 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.