I don't use Excel that often, but have been having to use it more and more lately. I keep learning that I don't actually know anything about it. After spending most of the last few days cursing at it, last night I found yet a new thing to hate. I shut my laptop, went home, watched my team lose, and then pulled my laptop out of the bag.
And noticed that the laptop was on fire, because it had never actually gone to sleep.
I opened it up to find a dialog box from Excel telling me that it couldn't let the system go into standby when it had a workbook open that was on a network file share.
Brilliant.
I swear, the decision to allow apps on Windows to abort system standby was just not a good idea at all.
Posted by Mike at April 7, 2004 10:13 PMThat really sucks. Ooh, but it's such a good story, and I'm going to re-tell it. Hearing bad things about Microsoft products always makes me happy. And proud of my decision to stop using their products--I haven't used them in over a year now. Umm. You don't know me, and I don't know you either. I was just, really bored. Anyway, nice blog?
Posted by: Rob on April 7, 2004 10:27 PMI'm sure my management will be proud of me.
Posted by: Mike on April 7, 2004 11:23 PM