Visual Studio
I created a new Windows 2003 VM server this afternoon to use as a development box. Loading up Visual Studio 2008 I couldn’t help but notice that the install splash screen cycled the same three faces over the entire length of the install:
Each photograph cycled in every 90 seconds, so that meant that over the course of an hour I saw each face forty times. And the longer I stared at these photos, the eerier they became. Come on, Microsoft. Can’t you mix things up a bit more? I’m sure you can afford to include more than three stock photographs in your insanely expensive software. After an hour I was getting a bit creeped out by Mr. Beady Eyes, Mrs. Neck Tendons, and Mr. “Mommy Made Me Wear This Sweater”.
I felt like gouging out my own eyes with the dull corner of my Post It Notes cube after an hour of watching these pictures scroll past over and over again. Can you please do something about this? I know that in the greater scheme of things this doesn’t really mean much, but if you’d mix in a few more graphics you’d set my mind a bit more at ease. At least replace Hipster Sweater Man and “OMG, I forgot that my badge was on. LOLcopters!” with something a bit less parodiable and disturbing.
