Bad user interface, part 37

I walked up to my laptop and saw this bit of OneCare-like stupidity: Here's the thing. If you’re going to perform background tasks, do it in the background. Obviously. And God help you if you pop-up a dialog later to inform me that whatever you were doing completed successfully. Put simply, let me know if something is really wrong, but get out of my face otherwise.

Paul Thurrott

October 31, 2008

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I walked up to my laptop and saw this bit of OneCare-like stupidity:

Here's the thing. If you’re going to perform background tasks, do it in the background. Obviously. And God help you if you pop-up a dialog later to inform me that whatever you were doing completed successfully.

Put simply, let me know if something is really wrong, but get out of my face otherwise.

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Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott is senior technical analyst for Windows IT Pro. He writes the SuperSite for Windows, a weekly editorial for Windows IT Pro UPDATE, and a daily Windows news and information newsletter called WinInfo Daily UPDATE.

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