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What Dirty Tricks Did You Use for April Fool's?

Posted by Cliff on from the fun-underhanded-tricks dept.

zxnos asks: "What evil, underhanded, dirty mean trick did you pull on April Fool's Day? Since I arrive in the office first, I wrote a little routine to go off when my coworkers tried to open the application that we all work in. It said: "Sorry, you arrived late for work today. The application you have requested is unavailable." The only response was 'OK' and would then close the application. What did you do?"

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  1. Re:The oldies are the best... by ConceptJunkie · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We Windows users are used to that as Explorer, the buggiest piece of software MS ever wrote and apparently will never fix, locks up pretty frequently. Very often I will minimize an app only to have the desktop fail to repaint until I kill explorer.exe. No wonder I use the command line as much as humanly possible.

    I really need to set up GeoShell again...

    Is it just me or is Explorer the most consistently crappy piece of software MS has ever written? I mean I've used Visual Studio all day almost every day for about 8 years, and in a year I can usually count the number of times I've seen it crash, lock up or otherwise behave poorly on one hand, whereas I need more than one hand for Explorer on a daily basis. Which piece of software is more sophisticated? Which piece of software does MS obviously care about and demonstrates that they can do a good job*, and which is a 10-year hack job they can't bother to fix because they are too busy faking evidence for their next monopoly trial?

    * The tools are good, but I think the libraries (i.e., MFC, etc), excuse my French, suck.

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