"I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less."
13 February 2004Get it now before it worksLiterally for months, Windows Media Player's auto-update feature has been nagging me to upgrade to version 9, and finally I bit the bullet yesterday and downloaded the 13-megabyte package. This morning, of course, there was a new "security update." Let it be said that all software beyond the level of Hello, world! has bugs and/or "random features" and/or "undocumented functionality." Still, any Microsoft package rivals the Albert Hall for holes. About ten minutes ago, in fact. A BBC story on the leak contains this nifty little blurb: [F]or Microsoft to have this code paraded in public is hugely embarrassing. Not least because the code is littered with profanity and might show that many Microsoft programmers do not do a very good job. Ah, internal documentation. Hmmm. If I were to load Windows backwards, would my computer display a satanic message? Posted by: McGehee at 8:25 PM on 15 February 2004 |