Windows Vista Update

Bug with Pop Ups requiring Passwords such as Outlook

by Brad
(Southlake TX USA)

This drives me crazy. You are working in one application and open another such as MS Outloook 7. You continue to work in your other application such as Excel when all of a sudden the password box for Outlook opens up.

The code should be set so when these pop up the cursor moves immediately there to allow you to enter the password.

Instead you type in the password only to find out you entered it in IE 7 or 8 or in an Excel box, etc...and the pop up box is still there...you are forced to move your mouse with the cursor to that box and type in the data....poor code design.

At a minimum it sould not pop up until you move into that application. This has been an ongoing issue with Microsoft for ages. They use geeks to test the applications that don't have a clue about common sense.

These applications and their associated boxes/requirements need to remain in the background until the person moves to them.



Another issue is the sum no longer works like it used to in older versions of Excel. You could do =sum(C6)-(C7..C40) and it would work fine. Now you have to do the C7..C40 separate and do a =sum(C7-C41) to get it to work. It was putting the VALUE code in the box which is totally incorrect for the issue as VALUE means you have verbiage, etc in a numbers box and that is not the case so this is another bug in that the VALUE is not correctly identifying the problem.

I would imagine different developers got involved and no one does checks and balances...and the testers certainly are not catching these bugs.

Thank you.
Brad Maunders