Rebooting.

Room for improvement

I’m sure there’s a whole team of UI designers, programmers, and testers who worked very hard on the OFF button in Windows Vista, but seriously, is this the best you could come up with?

Every time you want to leave your computer, you have to choose between nine, count them, nine options: two icons and seven menu items. The two icons, I think, are shortcuts to menu items.

Joel on Software Windows Vista.

Update: Moishe Lettvin explains how this happened.

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