Amusingly indecisive dialog box in Windows Vista
Interesting piece of copy in this Windows Vista dialog box. Basically it’s saying:
- Type your product key in now.
- But you don’t have to.
- But if you don’t, you could loose everything.
- And you might have to buy another copy of Vista.
- So on second thoughts, you probably should enter your product key in now after all.
Luckily, due to the way people scan-read when using a computer, few will actually read this paragraph and most will skip ahead to fill in their product key without even noticing the content.
Thanks to Peter Otto for picking up on this.
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At least it gives you the option.
The Vista user experience is as quirky and idiosyncratic as Windows ever was:
1. recommendations on which user accounts to set up are available on the Microsoft website, but NOT during set-up (where users might need it most?) and do not concur with the 'default' set-up, i.e. user ploughs on with one account (rather than creating a standard AND an admin account). And if you have only one account, Vista bizarrely refuses to recognise the password (I have seen this happen!) and you didn't back it up, you have to reinstall.
2. Vista allows for the backing up of an account without a password. Unsure how this works, but in view of what I have seen and in the belief that Vista just might not 'believe' that your password is blank...I'd advocate backing it up.