Chris Hanrath » Vista http://blog.chrishanrath.com Human-Computer Interaction and Information Visualization Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:13:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Really? …I mean seriously Microsoft? http://blog.chrishanrath.com/2009/02/really-i-mean-seriously-microsoft/ http://blog.chrishanrath.com/2009/02/really-i-mean-seriously-microsoft/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:56:54 +0000 Chris http://blog.chrishanrath.com/?p=114 Today i experienced an absolute showstopper even though I have been pretty satisfied with Windows Vista so far. For the past time as long as i remember the “Off” Button to the left of the “Lock” Button has been setting my Laptop to Standby.

Vista Start Menu Failure

Today – when leaving the Coffee shop – the same button suddenly decided to shut my system completely off with all my applications running. What would Nielsen say? Where is the Consistency, Recognition and Error Prevention?

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