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What's wrong with this picture?

Am I the only one that sees a problem with this picture?

Leave a comment with you answer...

[update] Jeff and John (in the comments) commented with the correct answer... it's the fact that the upgrading experience has a mixture of components that are using XP theme support and others that aren't.  Anyway, it caught my eye while installing XP in VPC and figured I'd share the WTF moment. ;-)

Published Friday, March 25, 2005 2:40 PM by CorySmith
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# re: What's wrong with this picture?

Friday, March 25, 2005 2:54 PM by Jason Bock
That it's so freaking small I can't tell what you're referring to :S

# re: What's wrong with this picture?

Friday, March 25, 2005 3:11 PM by Cory Smith
Then you don't see what is wrong. ;-) The size of the image doesn't hide what is wrong.

# re: What's wrong with this picture?

Friday, March 25, 2005 3:19 PM by Michael Russell
1) Setup in the "Setup Wizard" dialog is in lower case. Setup is the proper name for the item doing the inspecting, and should be in upper case.

2) "Performing inventory" could be a bit clearer. Inventory of what?

# re: What's wrong with this picture?

Friday, March 25, 2005 3:44 PM by Jeff Reser
The buttons on the service pack setup wizard are not using the visual styles

# re: What's wrong with this picture?

Friday, March 25, 2005 4:41 PM by Alex Kazovic
Is it being installed twice?

# re: What's wrong with this picture?

Friday, March 25, 2005 4:55 PM by Andy Eggers
What inventory is being collected by Microsoft? (Hardware, Software, just Microsoft software or all the software installed and uninstalled)

Does Microsoft have the Legal right to conduct an Inventory of my personal machine?

Microsoft has turned into Big Brother?


# re: What's wrong with this picture?

Friday, March 25, 2005 7:04 PM by Leigh Kendall
All I notice are the words installed and done! on the partially hidden dialog box. That it??

# re: What's wrong with this picture?

Friday, March 25, 2005 8:31 PM by John Bonano
No, look at the buttons on the dialog. They do not match the XP theme that is currently in use.

# re: What's wrong with this picture?

Friday, March 25, 2005 8:43 PM by Cory Smith
That's what I was waiting for, at least two people saw what I'm seeing. It's pretty interesting to see some of the other comments, but in the end the correct answer was that it's not using XP theme support. Which is really odd considering it's guaranteed to be running on a pretty specific version of the operating system (Windows XP release or SP1). Part of the experience has the buttons, while other portions don't; I would guess because it's another process being spawned, but to an end user, it would appear to be the same (single) process. How did they not catch this?

Anyway, I thought it was an interesting observation while installing a VPC image and figured I'd share the WTF moment.

Congradulations to Jeff and John for their correct answer and thanks to everyone who has commented with their guess.

# re: What's wrong with this picture?

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 5:24 AM by Joshua Rodman
Well, saying there's a correct answer when the question is "what's wrong" is kind of silly. That seems a very minor problem to me compared to the fact that you've got one application (update) which has opened three seemingly unrelated windows with different user interface concepts.

Another thing wrong with the picture is that you're using a web browser, no you're running windows update, wait.. what? My point is, who thought it would be a good idea to embed update (a native program) into a web browser. How is this helpful? It sure teaches users bad habits (click "install now"!)

Another thing wrong is that you have to Wait while it installs instead of just installing seamlessly in the background. But now I'm just being a sniper.

# re: What's wrong with this picture?

Monday, June 20, 2005 11:00 AM by Keith Jackson
Scary - I have to say that I picked up on the 'Performing inventory' bit first too. The comments on Update integration into a web browser are interesting and very true. I can't count the amount of times I tried explaining DONT INSTALL ANYTHING (Except Windows Update) to my flatmate (I now have no hair left to pull out).

You don't get that with Red Hat now do you..?

Perhaps a seperate app would have been more user friendly, Bill - eh?
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