Somone posted this awesome series of screenshots in the #ignmac irc channel, and I can’t verify what version of Vista this is, or even if this is truly the sequence you’d get in this situation, but the sad truth is that it doesn’t immediately strike me as an impossiblity.
While I’m normally quick to point out that rumours and speculation are generally not worth the ether they’re written in, it’s this type of behaviour in current versions of Windows that really chaps my ass. I won’t waste too much time belaboring the point, as I’ve read a lot of rants on the same subject, but this is just another example of why I prefer OS X (and unix-based OS’ for that matter).
When you tell the computer to do something, it just does it. The assumption is that you know what you’re talking about, and that you’ll live w/ the repercussions of your actions. The end result is that you’re more efficient on that machine. Microsoft’s fallen victim to their market share by feeling they have to cater to the idiots out there and providing a ton of fail-safes. In that regard, the *other* operating systems that don’t act that way are truly for more experienced users.
What’s sad to me is that the majority of computer users don’t realize that they’re being patronized. Actually, let me rephrase that: most people are idiots. They probably don’t realize they’re being patronized by this ridiculous coding practice. Microsoft better get their shit together on Vista — there’s a great deal more negative press out there bashing Vista than there was for their other OS releases.