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[News] Vista User Interface Mistakes - Critique from a Former Microsoft Excel Project Manager

Choices = Headaches

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| I'm sure there's a whole team of UI designers, programmers, and
| testers who worked very hard on the OFF button in Windows Vista,
| but seriously, is this the best you could come up with?
| 
| Image of the menu in Windows Vista for turning off the computer
| 
| Every time you want to leave your computer, you have to choose
| between nine, count them, nine options: two icons and seven menu
| items.
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http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/21.html

It would have been ironic if the button /still/ said "Start", which is the
route to /finishing/ a session.

How about navigating through vendor names to find a program that serves a
certain function (whose name is, in its own right, rarely rhetorical)?

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