Hey Microsoft,
Don’t include a broken unzip program as part of windows, mmm-kay? I realize that you don’t want to piss off the company that wrote WinZip since they saved your bacon years ago when you didn’t have a built in way to expand archives, but making your borked implementation the default for zip files sucks. You ruined my holiday vacation as I tried to track down why only some windows users were having problems. Turns out, it was only the people that don’t live on their computers every day. Maybe that’s because those kind of people just want their computer to work and actually relied on you, Microsoft, to make software that, you know, works. Silly them, eh? You got your money, so what do you care?
Of course, you’ll retort that there was a problem with the zip file in question. Sure there was! That’s why it worked on Macs and Linux and even windows, as long as you used a non-broken, non-microsoft program like WinZip or WinRAR to do it. But hey, who cares about compatibility, right?
Yeah, I’ll spend my copious free time trying to figure out a workaround for your crappy software — but at the same time I’ll be recommending Apple products to anyone that asks.
Douche-bags.
***a’hem***,You spelled (spelt?) douche wrong.
A douche is a device used to introduce a stream of water into the body for medical or hygienic reasons, or the stream of water itself. The word comes from the French language, in which its principal meaning is a shower (it is thus a notorious false friend encountered by non-native speakers of English; the phrase for vaginal douching is douche vaginale, meaning vaginal shower).
Comment by johnson — December 31, 2007 @ 2:43 pm
Fixed. Sigh. Been a long week of blurry-eyed windows support surfing.
Comment by thomas — December 31, 2007 @ 3:05 pm
I’m sorry, I thought Douche, was spelled “Hillary” …er sompin?
“vaginal shower”….uh.huh.huh.huhuhhhuhh
They should have put that in the Airplane movie when the captains asks… “Jimmy, do you like gladiator movies”?….”Have you ever seen a grown man naked?”….. and then “Jimmy, have you ever had a vaginal shower?”…. yeah, that would have been awesome.
Comment by jimbo — January 2, 2008 @ 7:51 am
The 13th time was the charm. I’M a douche for not trying the program “WinAce” I already had on my ‘puter earlier.
CD rocks by the way !
Comment by FatCat Radio — January 5, 2008 @ 11:55 am
Update: Deployed a fix this evening.
Comment by thomas — January 6, 2008 @ 9:40 pm