Ahh PDC is on and Windows developers all over the globe must be feeling good about themselves. Any why shouldn’t they? They develop finely tuned pieces of software that’s usable and secure and even does wonderful things like error checking. Pfftt.. give me a break. Here’s some wonderful error messages I received whilst installing a patch for Trend Micro’s ScanMail for Exchange:
Now hang on, I didn’t install the FTP Publishing Service on my Exchange server, what the hell are Trend on about? So I press cancel and the patch installs, then it restarts the services it stopped and I get this message:
“Dude. Didn’t I just say I didn’t have the FTP Publishing Service installed?” So I click the Cancel button again and I get the same message for the NNTP service, which is installed but like all default Exchange Server 2003 installs is disabled. And I get the same for the POP3 and IMAP4 services. Did these guys actually test the patch installer? What sort of quality testing do these things go through? Hmm.. I might go and play some Battlefield 2 and pretend the enemy are all Trend Micro employees..
