Comments on: Lookee what Microsoft is giving me as a potential update!

Lookee what Microsoft is giving me as a potential update!

Steven Den Beste — Mon, 09 Oct 2000 12:20:19 -0800

Lookee what Microsoft is giving me as a potential update! (Yeah, I know why it's really there.)

By: Steven Den Beste

Steven Den Beste — Mon, 09 Oct 2000 12:21:34 -0800

...but I must confess it took me a while to figure out why it's there. Sometimes I'm pretty slow.

By: rebeccablood

rebeccablood — Mon, 09 Oct 2000 12:52:03 -0800

I'm slower. explain, please. rcb

By: silusGROK

silusGROK — Mon, 09 Oct 2000 13:09:44 -0800

Yeah: what is this one all about? Have I missed something?

By: Steven Den Beste

Steven Den Beste — Mon, 09 Oct 2000 13:21:02 -0800

Just as I, with the English version of IE5.5, can download Chinese and Thai and Slovenian menus, this file gives people with the Chinese or Thai or Slovenian versions of Windows the ability to download English menus.

By: rebeccablood

rebeccablood — Mon, 09 Oct 2000 13:57:44 -0800

well, sure, but why is it being offered to *you*? rcb

By: highindustrial

highindustrial — Mon, 09 Oct 2000 14:24:56 -0800

Yeah, um, why is any of this noteworthy?

By: silusGROK

silusGROK — Mon, 09 Oct 2000 14:40:24 -0800

Ditto.

By: Steven Den Beste

Steven Den Beste — Mon, 09 Oct 2000 15:45:30 -0800

I thought it was humorous; sometimes people post things which seem strange, odd and funny here. Are we confined solely to the deadly serious in this forum?

By: rebeccablood

rebeccablood — Mon, 09 Oct 2000 16:51:00 -0800

no, no, I just didn't get it, that's all. I thought there was a reason it was being offered to you that I wasn't aware of. rcb

By: s10pen

s10pen — Mon, 09 Oct 2000 17:10:33 -0800

is the punchline that you do speak english, so you don't need the menus?

By: tsitzlar

tsitzlar — Mon, 09 Oct 2000 17:20:17 -0800

Personally, I thought it amusing that English menus were being offered on an entirely English page.

By: greyscale

greyscale — Mon, 09 Oct 2000 18:30:23 -0800

hehe. the dialog is as entertaining as your work steven. thanks!

By: Steven Den Beste

Steven Den Beste — Mon, 09 Oct 2000 19:21:06 -0800

Rebecca, all updates for a given version of Windows or IE (in this case IE 5.5) are offered to all users of that version, even if they have no use for them. I have no doubt that the Chinese users of IE 5.5 were offered the Chinese menu option when it became available a few months ago. The program which constructs that page (which runs locally, I might mention) bases its decision on whether to present an option on only two things: whether you've already installed it and whether you've used the "customize" page to turn the option off. I haven't yet turned that one off, that's all, and I certainly have no intention of downloading it. Now that I've had my laugh, I'll use the customize function and disable display of that choice, and it won't appear again.

By: baylink

baylink — Tue, 10 Oct 2000 07:34:04 -0800

You *use* Windows update? You brave, brave soul you.

By: cCranium

cCranium — Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:10:20 -0800

I do too. Well, at work. It's damn convenient, really, and should something blow up, well, I've got an excuse to spend an afternoon rebuilding my computer. :-)