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First impressions of Live 2011!
14 years ago
So with the OS install, I tried out Windows Live 2011. Realised you can't change your nickname from your profile name. Right, that's a bit of a downgrade. Sure, my name was "Axe Slaughterkill" but nobody knew me as that. That was okay, I found a way around it, just changed my name via the msn profile page, which is a bit more hassle to change my name than I'm used to, but I'd just do it less often, right?
Shortly after I realised that if you posted a link to an image on a chat, it would extract the image from the webpage and post it on the conversation for you, much like it would do if you clicked and dragged a picture into the 'picture sharing folder'. Fair enough. That would be a cool feature.
OH WAIT, it doesn't support animated gifs.
Okay, so this GIF was the picture I linked (full video). Now, Live 2011 likes to think it can still display GIFs, so it just doesn't animate them, instead displaying only the first frame as a still on the share-folder-like interface.
Hmm, okay. So the first frame appears to be three dildoes.
...So I just sent my friend a picture of three dildoes.
If I ever came to meet with the lead development team of msn, I'd have a few things to ask. For example, why, if you're going to take my image links and post them as a photoshare, didn't you make them support animated GIFs? I mean, it's as if anyone who develops msn has no friends themselves or something, because that's the only way I can see someone would put something like "automatic picture detection from links and proposal of a format supported by msn" and not include animated GIFs. Because they're socially inept, or taking the fucking piss.
Why would you let someone who's socially retarded design, and then let a group of socially retarded people test a program made solely for socialization purposes? It's baffling! Boggles the mind!
Needless to say the first impression was in fact the last. :B
Shortly after I realised that if you posted a link to an image on a chat, it would extract the image from the webpage and post it on the conversation for you, much like it would do if you clicked and dragged a picture into the 'picture sharing folder'. Fair enough. That would be a cool feature.
OH WAIT, it doesn't support animated gifs.
Okay, so this GIF was the picture I linked (full video). Now, Live 2011 likes to think it can still display GIFs, so it just doesn't animate them, instead displaying only the first frame as a still on the share-folder-like interface.
Hmm, okay. So the first frame appears to be three dildoes.
...So I just sent my friend a picture of three dildoes.
If I ever came to meet with the lead development team of msn, I'd have a few things to ask. For example, why, if you're going to take my image links and post them as a photoshare, didn't you make them support animated GIFs? I mean, it's as if anyone who develops msn has no friends themselves or something, because that's the only way I can see someone would put something like "automatic picture detection from links and proposal of a format supported by msn" and not include animated GIFs. Because they're socially inept, or taking the fucking piss.
Why would you let someone who's socially retarded design, and then let a group of socially retarded people test a program made solely for socialization purposes? It's baffling! Boggles the mind!
Needless to say the first impression was in fact the last. :B
...and features aren't features if they don't work >.>