Archive for the Microsoft category

Mac vs PC vs Linux (South Park Style)

I´ve just found these funny videos where the Get a Mac campaign is given a new twist: The South Park touch. I laughed a lot, but the best thing is the last phrase, that matches perfectly our mood when something goes wrong and we don´t have a clue about how to solve it…

Mac vs PC:

 

Mac vs PC vs Linux:

This week´s error message

I´ve seen a lot of weird Windows error messages over the Internet, but until now, none of them had hit me. Last week, while trying to kill Outlook 2007 after it went unresponsive for a while in my office laptop, the following window appeared on my desktop:

Outlook Error

It´s in spanish and says: “It is not possible to force Microsoft Office Outlook to close right now. If you reboot your computer, this might solve the problem. We´re sorry for the inconvenience.”

I was speechless… It seems, after all, that rebooting your computer IS a viable solution and it is recommended by Microsoft! Fortunately, in other OSes, these “methods” don´t exist (at least, I haven´t seen them…yet.)