The Bat flies out of Microsoft hell theregister.co.uk
Meanwhile, the cheeky guys at The Register seem to have had what sounds like the ultimate in the "integrity and uniformity of the Windows experience." It's not nice to be disrespectful towards the man of wealth and taste, you know, so they were just getting what they deserve.
Towards the beginning of last week, we found ourselves slightly embarrassed because two 20MB Powerpoint presentation, courtesy of some spin doctors, clogged up our big pipe here at Vulture Central for half of the afternoon. We killed the job because, basically, no-one could work, thinking that we'd pick it up at home, first thing in the morning, when the pipes have just been cleaned here in Blighty.
There then followed a full four days of 20MB Powerpoint Hell at the teleworking office of a Reg staffer. Microsoft Outlook, which we had used at home, has an option that is supposed to let you specify that files above a certain size not be downloaded. Whoever put that box in Outlook had better re-examine his or her code, because it certainly didn't work. Instead, our ISP bravely attempted to download our email and then Outlook consistently fell over during the 20MB monster, so filling up our hard drive and, eventually, destroying Windows 98 completely. We thought we'd see if our StinkPad fared any better, but the Powerpoint Presentation from Santa PR bunnies pulled over IBM's best too...
Cheers, Dan. |
