Best Dialog Evar!!!
by brian @ 22:52:57 - [perma-link]I'm speechless. This is truly awesome. What an incredible waste of
my time. I'm signing up for Microsoft's "Let Us Spy On You and We'll Give You
Free Vista" program (that's my understanding anyway). I'm maybe 45-
seconds into their "15 minute" survey, and I get this web page. Its
the best page ever. The instructions say "Please click CONTINUE to
proceed" and there's a lone button (mind you, the only interactive bit
on the entire page) that says "CONTINUE". There's no decision to be
made. There's just the one button. I didn't even need to describe
it, since its right there in the picture. Its so stupid I'm inclined not to click it simply because it feels
like a scam. Like there's some hidden info that I'm agreeing to by
clicking the button. Microsoft wouldn't mislead me, would they? Honestly, I lied on the previous page (or one of the previous pages)
where it asked if I owned the computer on which I'd be installing
Windows... I have no such computer. I have a couple of Macs, and a
box I use for Linux, but I have no plans on changing any of them. I'm
just curious. I'll probably install it on a virtual machine
somewhere, but not on actual hardware. I'm even a bit leery of
putting Vista on a virtual machine, just because I don't know what
sort of bot-net I might get virtually attached to (dangling
participles are a bitch, aren't they? Sorry, Mrs. Strom). Maybe "Ztelligence" is run by some sort of control freak. "Click the
button! Click it! Now!"
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