ITT: horrible practices we have to deal with because Microsoft (or another company) fucked up and normalised a mistake

ITT: horrible practices we have to deal with because Microsoft (or another company) fucked up and normalised a mistake.

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Office formats ending with x
.ppt/.pps

You start.

Case-sensitivity of file system.

Are you retarded?

>implying there is case-sensitivity in a multi-cultural world

Proprietary software.

I'm talking about writing systems with cases, for sure.

Killer apps.

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Anti-piracy activation?

This.
The whole "Open" XML fiasco was a killing blow at the free market of Office suites.
nothing surprising considering that Bill Gates is a socialist.

>safely remove flash drives

No, third-person indirect pronouns. Yes, product activation you illiterate faggot.

Hardware backdoors in CPU firmware
Thanks intel

Don't be silly, goy, don't you want a big goverment to look after you?

The ANSI 101 Key keyboard layout popularized by IBM.

A submit button on a keyboard that was completely integrated into the OS and applications would be really useful. Instead we have to move the mouse cursor over to click like a 5 year old, or use cumbersome tabbing.

One could argue the Enter/Return key was supposed to fulfill this purpose, but the conflating of these two functions is what ruined it.

Shit, I remember this.

Half the time it didn't work, on my computers at least.

My bad. I'm too used to not reading those things.
There was an user a while ago asking how to get Win10 to stop addressing him as if it were human because if flamed his autism. I can see why.

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but user. they're different characters

>mentions keyboard
>doesn't point the obvious

I'm just using it as a AHK key.

What's with the Context Menu key? I had to click it to see what it was, since I have never used it. Is it for when your mouse breaks?

Given that mice came later, a pointing device like it should just be for selecting something and sending a command to it like M1 for Return, M2 for Context, Page up/down on the scroll wheel, etc. An environment should be fully controllable with just a keyboard.
That's obviously not what mice actually do as they have their own distinct hardware events but you get the analog, anything you can do with a mouse, even in a graphical 2D environment should be doable with a keyboard alone, even navigating a 2D plane with or without a cursor is possible.

This.

Like 95% of applications and webforms use enter as "submit"

The escape key being in the top left corner while the caps lock (little to no use) is on the home row

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absolutely this
and to this day, I'm still surprised that there's never been a concentrated effort to replace JS (VBScript doesn't count, it didn't solve any fucking issues)

>What's with the Context Menu key?
I actually use it a fuckton, mostly for spellcheck. Typing along, made a mistake, don't reach for the mouse, just move back a tad and use it to bring up the spellcheck menu.
remapped caps lock to it in fact

although the fact that it has the Windows logo on it is awful, it really is nice to have another modifier key

this shit is an eternal embarrassment
Why is everything about Windows Update so bad?

Well I'd rather misclick Caps than Esc

Between all the other kinds of sensitivity there are in a multi-cultural world, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if case-(in)sensitivity was somebody's triggeR.

This, Windows still can't update some things without turning the whole system off

I use capslock for capitalizing writing, never shift.

That's because you're a gimp

0/10 try again

Just get a keycap without a windows logo and boom you have another modifier. It's great to have in i3.

Can't update most things from what I can tell, I have to reboot my Windows machine about every 2 weeks. The best part is on 10 they're cumulative updates, and they're installed automatically. So if your OS installs updates and has a reboot pending, and you delay it long enough for them to put out a second update, you have to restarts twice anyway instead of just installing the second update and restarting once.

The only way around it is hosting your own Windows server machine and using WSUS manually which is a hassle in its own right. I hate this shit.

Biggest shit i have with windows client based is the w10 update that normies accepted without prejudice. All the printers on my customer and company side fucked up like its dec 31 1999 all over again. Phones keep calling in about tech support for their pc while all i do was dealing with industrial barcode printers.

Drivers weren't working here and there until a restart, customer inhouse tech being dumber than a fuck like me trying to ignore my advice of just "restarting" PC.

Honestly i dont get paid dealing customer side pc issues. Fuck im in the wrong field.

Micropayments
Closed-source software
Scripts, scripts, ads and scripts in web browsing
Data caps
QWERTY
Diversity

God Damn automatic win 10 Updates. Causes me untold amounts of wasted hours.

The cloud

non-journaling file system

>defragmenting


You only have to do this if you've just written data and need the flash drive out right now. Been taking it out without ejecting on windows, linux, and mac for over 15 years with no bad effects.

Also know people who turn their computer off, yell out O SHIT, turn it back on, just to eject the flash drive. OS X is the worst because it gives you a nasty message and tries to edumacate you.

Windows key is amazing once you start actually using it instead of just hitting it on accident every once in a while. Don't think of it as a Win key, just think of it as another function key.

And the 5% that don't suck and make you hesitate when using the other 95%.

>Been taking it out without ejecting on windows, linux, and mac for over 15 years with no bad effects.
Same here.

>Also know people who turn their computer off, yell out O SHIT, turn it back on, just to eject the flash drive
Haha, this is new to me.

forced updates

This

Covered mine with a system76 ubuntu sticker.

ECMAScript 6 isn't that hard, it's just that complex stuff is unreadable

>you have to restart your computer to finish installing updates!
>one update
>security update for adobe flash player for windows 10

>>security update for adobe flash player for windows 10
Using Flash in 2016?
You're kidding.

Not only that but it needs to restart your computer to implement the update, so it is a critical component.
Flash!
A critical component in the Operating System!

t. Kantai Collection

O/X jp vs restoftheworld nonsense on playstation.

(JP being correct)

>implying figures as buttons aren't mistake

null
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_pointer#History

CR LF

OEM

Satan is become you

Fucking webcams on laptops and shit because of degenerate normies.

>menu key (along with windows key) introduced in 1994
>mice came later

Mice did come later, you think keyboards were introduced in 1994? The practice of using a computer with just a keyboard had been in place long before the 90's.

Fans.

The move away from passively cooled hardware was a massive mistake.

As was moving away from the awesome keyboard-computer design.

Touch screen

The absolute worst.

IPv4

Anyone use the launched web browser to download and install an activator?

closed source software