Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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As a geek, I install, update and did I say update a lot of software.
I can't stand when I'm installing something and I get this dialog:
First of all, this dialog is not friendly. Second of all, Processor ID? Exweese me? What do I do with that information? Third of all, why isn't there a big FAT EASY BUTTON.
Can like the installer use Shadow Copy or something to replace the files it needs to replace and have it all just work the next time I launch Outlook?
Installers that are horrible about this are anything that relies on Outlook or IE for integration.
What's weird is that some installers on Vista ask you if you want to automatically quit the running applications and continue.