Proof of Microsofts Lazyness

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Mon May 05, 2003 8:55 pm

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I swear that i did not edit this image.

Unknown_K · Post by **Unknown_K** » Tue May 06, 2003 12:55 am

Lets see, M$ found an error and the screen pops up. Its just saying the program found 1 error, it will correct this error. there might be more errors, recheck the disk after its done testing.

I think the reason it says this is because if it finds a damaged sector it treis to copy the data to an unused sector, which might also be bad (but it doesnt know when it writes it).

Post by **wardrich** » Tue May 06, 2003 7:42 am

ya, but it sounds funny though. That's what i figured too.

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Tue May 06, 2003 1:45 pm

It never did fix the error. That poped up like 5 times while scanning, and It never fixed teh problem.

Unknown_K · Post by **Unknown_K** » Tue May 06, 2003 1:57 pm

Kazer0 wrote:It never did fix the error. That poped up like 5 times while scanning, and It never fixed teh problem.

Toss the floppy or get the dust out of your disk drive.

Better yet load norton utilities for dos to check it out since back when this app was popular they could actually fix precious old floppy disks.

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Tue May 06, 2003 2:10 pm

I would, but this was on my school pc.

computer_person · Post by **computer_person** » Tue May 06, 2003 8:35 pm

Microsoft has just sunken to a new low. First Windows, now this. Oh well. Just use a Mac and use an Apple-formatted disk while you're at it (I won't forgive you if you didn't do this.)

Zerox12 · Post by **Zerox12** » Tue May 06, 2003 9:36 pm

Does this surprise you? You see making the thing work right the first time would involve more work for the programmers. Therefore more money going to them on time wasted coding it. Therefore less money made, and more energy exerted. Does not work. That, and as a programmer myself, making that thing work would probably take a decent ammount of time and effort, not liking it.

Da_Goat · Post by **Da_Goat** » Tue May 06, 2003 11:10 pm

Yeah, that's why K0 is calling them lazy.

nastypoisonspikes · Post by **nastypoisonspikes** » Wed May 07, 2003 6:06 am

computer_person wrote:Microsoft has just sunken to a new low. First Windows, now this...

Oh please, stop this pointless, futile and groundless Mircosoft bashing.

But the ScanDisk thing is funny.

Post by **wardrich** » Wed May 07, 2003 7:47 am

Zerox12 wrote:Does this surprise you? You see making the thing work right the first time would involve more work for the programmers. Therefore more money going to them on time wasted coding it. Therefore less money made, and more energy exerted. Does not work. That, and as a programmer myself, making that thing work would probably take a decent ammount of time and effort, not liking it.

not only that, but if they did make it efficient, AND work, they would lose that reputation that they have with us elite dossists/ gamers/programmers/average schmucks

-Richard-

PS: What languages do u use Zerox?

John The Ax · Post by **John The Ax** » Wed May 07, 2003 8:47 am

Think about it, Z12, if they started doing things <b>right</b>, people would get mad.

Zerox12 · Post by **Zerox12** » Wed May 07, 2003 7:29 pm

PS: What languages do u use Zerox?

I know "True" BASIC, and C++. I'm in the process of learning C and Java.

Post by **wardrich** » Thu May 08, 2003 7:27 am

sw33t Zerox... i am a VB master myself.

Interon 2.0 · Post by **Interon 2.0** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 9:56 pm

Windows is bloatware enough, adding such elaborate data protection schemes might make it even bloater.

Cmaza · Post by **Cmaza** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:20 pm

http://www.cmaza.net/files/clips/win98.mpg

Interon 2.0 · Post by **Interon 2.0** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 10:20 pm

Yeah, saw that a few times before.

That must have been ultra-embarrasing... It's so hard to do thorough debugging. Either that, or they rushed it.

Even up til now there are over 50 fixes since 1998 for Windows 98 first edition. And they are still discovering issues.

That's what you get when you have extremely complex OSes with millions of lines of code.

Also I heard that some Microsoft programmers stayed up very late to hurry up the release date, and some say that's a cause of some bugs.

Cmaza · Post by **Cmaza** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 11:46 pm

Wouldn't suprise me at all.