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What is Software Usability?

January 12th, 2009 by Mugunth Kumar

As a software engineer, and that too a Windows Application Developer, majority of my work involves Visual Studio 2005.

Today, I got a baffling prompt from VS 2005 as seen in the screenshot below…


I made a mistake and wanted to quit. I was happy that my project file is readonly. But this is the prompt I got from VS 2005. It seems that I ought to save the file somehow. Clicking Cancel takes me back to where I was. There’s simply no option to ignore my changes and quit the application except killing it from task manager.
Is this the way Microsoft Engineers do usability testing?

C’mon… Any M$ofties around?


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