Look out, its Outlook
I know all you Flat Earth Science devotees are way ahead of the curve on this already, so forgive me for stating the obvious. I work in corporate America. As such, I am required to use Microsoft Outlook constantly all day. You know what I’m talking about. It’s some kind of super tool with about five apps rolled into one. (It’s a dessert topping and a floor wax!)
First off, here’s a nice shot from Explorer:
So Outlook has hijacked the .cfg extension. This is such a major WTF, that it warrants being written in long form, i.e. What the Fuck?
Ok, so if you’re not a developer you probably don’t care. But hijacking .cfg is like taking .txt and saying its now a “Microsoft Total XML Template file” or something. El ay em ee spells lame.
Also, the latest versions of Outlook has some kind of fetish for line breaks in messages. Everything I get says “click here to remove the extra line breaks” or “this message has had extra line breaks hidden.” I’m guessing Nad was in that marketing focus group, drunk and messing with the MS guys. “You know what I hate? Extra line breaks in my messages! I mean seriously. Kill those fucking line breaks and you’ve got me for life!” where did they get the impression that we need to be saved from the scourge of extra linefeeds in out messages?
In conclusion: boobies. That is all.
Nothing to see here. Just go about your business.
Last time I checked, configuration files were named .conf
Just hijack it back, thats an explorer setting nothing else.
This does nothing to dispel the image of windows users as ‘whiners’.
Geez.
Where do you work?
Comment on May 5, 2006 @ 12:22 pm
Question: is “It’s a dessert topping and a floor wax” a mixed metaphor? And don’t you be dissin’ my homie Nad, you can tell by his attitude he’s already gotten enough of that sort of thing for one lifetime!
Comment on May 5, 2006 @ 12:36 pm
Ya! Represent, homes!
You take that you persnickity Cannonballer, you.
I’m all Garth-Brooksed-out…I got friends in low places, and they ain’t afraid to bust a cap in yo ass for a forty.
West Centennial fo’ life, foolz — Westsiiiiiiide!
Seriously, tho, even Chippy hates those line breaks (since he uses pine as his e-mail client) — so ya, when I was on that 4-day bender and thought I’d take part in that M$ Focus Group just to get the free coffee mug so I’d have something to aspirate into, I most certainly may have brought that up.
Comment on May 5, 2006 @ 1:45 pm