Linux Architect » design http://linuxarchitect.org/wordpress Life is Too Short, Live Free Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:59:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Microsoft UI design http://linuxarchitect.org/wordpress/2010/01/microsoft-ui-design/ http://linuxarchitect.org/wordpress/2010/01/microsoft-ui-design/#comments Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:06:27 +0000 George Boyce http://linuxarchitect.org/wordpress/?p=119 I just had my first BSOD of 2010. I went looking for the memory dump file and found that it had been auto-deleted, replaced with a minidmp file. Seems that this is the default behaviour on Windows 7 under certain circumstances, e.g. if you are a “home” user with less than 25G of free space. The Startup and Recovery systems property page makes no mention of this new behaviour. You have to google to find the info on this new design.

I don’t mind Microsoft making design decisions based on how they think their customer would like the system to operate. I learned during my days at AOL that some products are designed for the mass market. That’s why I’m in the 5% Linux crowd.

I just don’t understand why they didn’t put the new design controls on the Startup and Recovery page. Why hide the info so that only a crafty Google search would find it? Why make your customer do everything via regedit?

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