Proof that M$ hires morons

[greatscot]

I was at a friend's house recently when she wanted to log into hotmail and send an email before we went out to eat.
She entered her password and it was wrong. So, she entered it again and it was wrong again. This went a few more times when a popup window came up asking her if she wanted to use the Password Reset Function. If she chose "yes", a URL would be emailed to her inbox that would allow her to reset her password.

I asked her if she had any other email accounts and she said no, hotmail was the only email account she ever had. So, she clicked on the "YES" button and another popup window came up confirming that the password reset link had been emailed to her inbox, she needed only to login to her inbox and click the password reset link in the email that hotmail just sent her.

I had to read those popup windows three times to understand what was happening. Then, I started laughing. She asked me what I was laughing at and I explained to her that Microsoft, in their infinite stupidity, had just emailed her a password reset URL so she could reset the password that she lost. Then, I asked her how she was going to get into her inbox in order to click on the password reset link, since she lost the password that allows her to login to her inbox. She'll never be able to get into her inbox to click the reset link until she remembers the password, in which case she won't need the reset link. She looked at the screen, and then looked back at me and said," well, that was totally stupid". After we finished laughing at Microsoft, we went out and had a nice dinner.

This moment of pure stupidity was brought to you by the Microsoft Corporation and is proof that Microsoft does indeed hire morons.

[Aloone_Jonez]

I agree this is stupid!

But don't you have a secrete question with a secrete answer like what's your favourite porn star?

[Kintaro]

I was at a friend's house recently when she wanted to log into hotmail and send an email before we went out to eat.
She entered her password and it was wrong. So, she entered it again and it was wrong again. This went a few more times when a popup window came up asking her if she wanted to use the Password Reset Function. If she chose "yes", a URL would be emailed to her inbox that would allow her to reset her password.

I asked her if she had any other email accounts and she said no, hotmail was the only email account she ever had. So, she clicked on the "YES" button and another popup window came up confirming that the password reset link had been emailed to her inbox, she needed only to login to her inbox and click the password reset link in the email that hotmail just sent her.

I had to read those popup windows three times to understand what was happening. Then, I started laughing. She asked me what I was laughing at and I explained to her that Microsoft, in their infinite stupidity, had just emailed her a password reset URL so she could reset the password that she lost. Then, I asked her how she was going to get into her inbox in order to click on the password reset link, since she lost the password that allows her to login to her inbox. She'll never be able to get into her inbox to click the reset link until she remembers the password, in which case she won't need the reset link. She looked at the screen, and then looked back at me and said," well, that was totally stupid". After we finished laughing at Microsoft, we went out and had a nice dinner.

This moment of pure stupidity was brought to you by the Microsoft Corporation and is proof that Microsoft does indeed hire morons.

 I have 49 gmail accounts, or invites, but I have found I can send invites to myself, so technically I have both.

Get this girl to get gmail - its badass.

[greatscot]

You have to get an invite to gmail first. You can't just go to gmail and sign up, you have to be invited, and she doesn't know anyone who is willing to give her an invite.

She created a new hotmail account. I am trying to get her off of hotmail and into Linux, but she is a creature of habit and unwilling to change.

[KernelPanic]

You have to get an invite to gmail first. You can't just go to gmail and sign up, you have to be invited, and she doesn't know anyone who is willing to give her an invite.

I have 49 gmail ... invites ...

um...

[Siplus]

You have to get an invite to gmail first. You can't just go to gmail and sign up, you have to be invited, and she doesn't know anyone who is willing to give her an invite.

She created a new hotmail account. I am trying to get her off of hotmail and into Linux, but she is a creature of habit and unwilling to change.

um...

you do know that you can use hotmail through firefox on linux, right? hotmail != platform dependant

[Aloone_Jonez]

How about: http://www.linuxmail.org/

[Stryker]

http://illhostit.com/gmail/

she can get one from there.

[Calum]

You have to get an invite to gmail first. You can't just go to gmail and sign up, you have to be invited, and she doesn't know anyone who is willing to give her an invite.

She created a new hotmail account. I am trying to get her off of hotmail and into Linux, but she is a creature of habit and unwilling to change.

i have several, she can have one of mine, (or two or three)
send an email to me : calumcarlyle AT gmail DOT com and i'll send an invite by return email.

[greatscot]

Thank you all for the posts and information.
She has agreed to allow me to install Mandrakelinux on a seperate partition and teach her how to use it

She should be Windows-free soon.

[Calum]

although i see you're not too interested in one of my gmail.com invites.
maybe you got one off of kintaro.

good luck with mandrake, it has a horrible approach to automounting removable disks, and i would lay money on it seizing up and requiring a reboot to get your CDs back after only a few hours. to get rid of this, read up on supermount and how to turn it off in the fstab - although some people like it set up the way it is by default, who knows why, but there's always going to be people who think different things, i suppose.

[jtpenrod]

good luck with mandrake, it has a horrible approach to automounting removable disks, and i would lay money on it seizing up and requiring a reboot to get your CDs back after only a few hours.

Even as a raw n00b, I always made sure to turn that damn thing off regardless of what distro I had that included it. I always used the "mount" command for viewing CDs or diskettes.

[latino4ever8]

She asked me what I was laughing at and I explained to her that Microsoft, in their infinite stupidity, had just emailed her a password reset URL so she could reset the password that she lost.

umm... i think youre both stupid... for taking so long to realize that it sent it there. for laughing at the mundane. for having put the adress to send it to as the hotmail one. -not for losing the password though.

ms hirez dumbasses

like you?