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Dear MS: Please don't put a URL in a dialog you can't copy from

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I googled it easy enough, but this URL placed in this dialog is ridiculous:


...and that's not even bringing up the fact that almost always, those links are outdated and end up taking you to the default page.

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Dan Alexandru 5. September 2007, 05:29

Ctrl+C on most such dialogs will copy the text to clipboard.. Not many people know about this, though.

On a side note, I suspect that the URL is borked anyway (Can you test, Eddie?), because the label holding the message text is (by default) formatted to show keyboard shortcuts: the URL's &display becomes display as ampersand needs to be escaped (&& instead of &).

My complain would be "Don't put unclickable links" anywhere except e.g. TXT files.

Alexis Brion 22. October 2007, 14:45

That's so Microsoft!

bpm 8. January 2008, 11:13

Lest we be smug: URL you can't copy - like the one in an Opera webnote?
(And on that topic: how about the timestamp you can't see? Fixed in 9.5: but the Opera team somehow DECIDED to make it datestamp-only in Windows Opera, date+time for Mac and Linux - and stuck with it for years.)

masterofopera 24. April 2008, 08:58

That is genuine Micro$oft software at it´s best.

If you want (I do not think) more Micro$oft-adventures
-> Damage the installed M$ .NET Framework ( = dotnetfx, any version),
try to remove, reinstall or install (overwrite) it and the
adventure begins -> Damaages .NET Framework can:
*not get deinstallated/removed
*not get repaired/reinstalled
*not get installed (paralel or other version)
*not get overwritten.

The problems with .NET Framework beginns from installation,
continues while deindtalation and and ends after Format C: .

Anonymous 17. October 2008, 19:51

Mark writes:

This one should go on http://www.redesignme.com

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