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On Windows any program can hang and you usually fell no fear, because you can always use Task Manager to kill that nasty, hanged piece of software.

But, what if Task Manager hangs...

When you try to return data from Microsoft Query 97 to a Microsoft Excel 97 worksheet, the spinning globe icon (which signifies that a query is processing) may appear for a long time, and then the query returns no data to your worksheet. If you Google enough deeply to find a solution for this problem you may find solution filed under Q168702 in Microsoft Knowledge Base. It is just a rocket-science killer.

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This fuckup is nearly as old as Windows 7 is -- meaning it has around six years:

And six years wasn't enough for Microsoft to publish any update that would hide this dully behavior and block user access to non-functioning feature!

The biggest fuckup of all Nokia / Microsoft Lumia phones is, that you can't manually configure your Wi-Fi connection. You must use DHCP. If your local network does not offer this feature, you simply can't use that network. And you're sucked!

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Most modern browsers has evolved to have a checkbox in each alert box that allows user to block displaying next messages.

Internet Explorer creator hasn't found need for such functionality.

If you want to see an effect of that, you only need to create a new HTML page or edit existing one and put such simple code somewhere inside:

<script>
    function whyIECreatorsAreMorons() {
        var elem = document.getElementsByTagName('');
        
        for (var i = 0; i = elem.length; i++) {
            alert(elem[i].className);
        }
    }
</script>

Run it... and you screwed! On nearly every page you will be forced to shut down IE via Task Manager or you'll die clicking "OK".

I understand that Microsoft Office is eager to secure me as much as it is possible. And therefore there was introduced a "read-only" mode. How Microsoft / Windows / Office "knows" which of my private files come from the Internet and which don't? It gives me the creeps... Moreover, it seems to be a cool, security-oriented feature. But why it works for printing documents too?

What harm can I do myself or to my computer, even though the document contains a malicious code or any other kind of unwanted content if I print it out on a piece of paper? Will that execute some harmful macro? Is there any reason or sense behind this, except for pissing me off each time I have to click on Enable Printing button on such docs?

Word has a nifty feature that helps user in printing envelopes. Cool, easy and useful. All was fine in Word 2007. Few days after I switched to Word 2010 only to discovered that some moron got his hands on code responsible for this feature in newest Word. At wasted it totally!

As always in Microsoft, it is about small things that are so anoying, because are small and could be fixed within moments.

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