Let’s face it – software can be a really annoying thing sometimes.
Things like extraneous dialog boxes, “tips of the day”, ambiguous error messages and clippers ticking on your screen happen daily. But sometimes, sometimes, you get a stupid behaviour from a hugely popular application and you want to smash your head on the screen till it bleeds to death – two times.
While at work, I use Microsoft Outlook 2007 for managing company e-mail. I have to say, in terms of memory hogs, this thing is a winner! I cannot possibly imagine why it hangs every time with a very moderately-sized inbox, 2Gb of RAM and a 3Ghz processor, but it does.
After waiting the full 30-40 seconds for it to load, I decide to create a filter for the e-mails received by the new guy that was recently hired. Oh, and another friend that popped in my mind, a common filter for the two, named “New guys”. I enter their e-mail addresses in the appropriate field…
I create a filter for two custom e-mail addresses
Ok, all fine and dandy so far. Till this:
Outlook asks me to go back and replace the delimiters myself. Hmm…
Uhm, excuse me? Why should I, the almighty (and fairly bored) user, HAVE to go back and replace my commas with semicolons? Why? Because the programmers were too lazy to implement some kind of string replace function to do the dirty work?
Ok, help me, am I missing something with this? Is this done on purpose? I may be exaggerating, but this is one of the stupidest things software ever made me do.