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Vistas Many Turnoffs
Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
How many ways should you be able to shut off a laptop? How about nine? Microsoft’s long-awaited 
Vista operating system, launched for business customers on Nov. 30, includes that many options, according to programmers familiar with the software. That’s two shortcut icons and a shut-down menu with a full seven options.
The number of choices has some techies chortling at what they see as the sheer absurdity of it all—and others astounded that the software giant could come out with something so unwieldy after years of development. Critics say that Vista, for all its capabilities, could end up being too complex for the average consumer. After all, how many features do you need for the computer equivalent of a light switch? "I’m sure there’s a whole team of [user interface] designers, programmers, and testers who worked very hard on the OFF button in Windows Vista," writes Joel Spolsky, a New York software developer, on his blog, "but seriously, is this the best you could come up with?" Vista’s Many Turnoffs
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