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Microsoft Messenger has always been my least favorite IM app. I hate them all actually, with their two hundred buttons, endless ads, etc. But MSN Messenger is the worst because it has no antispam protections. Everytime I log in I get one or two of these popups.

Another example of bad design at Microsoft. Here I have to choose one option and then hit OK. Why make me click twice? Why have a cancel button? This is an action that requires a decision, not chickening out. Instead of me just complaining about it, I offer here is a replacement design. It is [...]

Jay Leno has a favorite topic to riff about, ‘stupid criminals’. Mine is ‘stupid web design’. The one above is a doozy. It says It has an error message. But it won’t tell me what to do with the error message. How do I view what is in the error report? How do I send [...]

I could not get another cruddy Microsoft product, Microsoft Live Messenger to work correctly. So I click on the debug tool, and it pops up this weird connection Troubleshooter. So, the test results go through all of the steps and…. NOTHING. It still did not fix it. The design of this ‘troubleshooter’ is so bad, [...]