Re: obtuse message? or obtuse user?

Subject: Re: obtuse message? or obtuse user?
From: "Bill Swallow" <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:41:13 -0400

The Vista gods are not amused. ;)

I agree the message is vague, but without knowing exactly what the
options are, it's hard to suggest a re-write. The way it's worded
would cause most users to revert, which is poor form in my opinion.

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:26 PM, McLauchlan, Kevin
<Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
> Speaking, as we were in another thread, about the Helpfulness of
> Microsoft stuff, I thought I'd bring up something that stares me in the
> face when Win XP's leakiness forces me to reboot.

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