St. Petersburg Web Design Blog

It seems that Microsoft is always looking for the easy fix to big design flaws. Now usually I’m all for the easy fix, but if it does more harm than good, it’s certainly time to put some extra effort into fixing the design flaw. This usually saves all kinds of problems down the road.

Microsoft seems to be extras at making “features” that do more harm than good too. Sometimes it’s hard to imagine why they put so much effort into such a bad idea. For instance in Win XP you were no longer able to make any folder you wanted “private”, only the ones that were under certain users profiles and in certain spots. Another example, with WinXP whenever you copy a folder from one disc to your hard disc, or one hard disc to another, it automatically becomes a “Read-only” folder that can’t be deleted or renamed. These were “features” according to Microsoft.

We’ve all been hearing about the mostly bad changes due to come out in IE 7. This latest one is going to screw up a lot of newbies and cause more support tickets for any web sites with log ins. The new “delete browsing history” feature under the “tools” menu wills not only clear the history, but also:

• the cache
• all cookies
• all saved passwords
• all saved form data
• all e-mail attachments in Outlook Express

Imagine all the new messages in your inbox reading “Please help, can’t log-in” and “I can’t remember which e-mail address I signed up with?” and “Why doesn’t your web site remember me?”

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