MS' error message equivalent of F YOU

Re:MS' error message equivalent of F YOU by Someone1234 on Thursday January 28, 2016 @10:26AM (#10988680)

I agree that it is a terrible error message. Unfortunately Microsoft doesn't take as much care with their Mac products as their Windows versions of the same, you can see this throughout the history of MS Office for Mac.

As an aside: Do error messages with only one button ("ok") hint at a design problem? I often find that if you're presenting an alert() style error, you've done something wrong before that which could be improved to provide greater user feedback (e.g. turn the "bad" item red, and add a label, etc).

I wouldn't go as far as to say that alert() style errors are NEVER the right answer, but when you find yourself using them you should re-examine if you absolutely had to. They often hint at poor or lazy design.

> Secondly, what an ignorant unhelpful error message is this?

What is it people think the word ignorant means? The sentence seems to make sense otherwise, "unhelpful error message" is fine as a stand-alone. But ignorant error message? Is the error message meant to be safe aware?

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Re:MS' error message equivalent of F YOU by dandare on Thursday January 28, 2016 @11:55AM (#10989347)

Regarding the MS products on Mac - I have only installed Outlook for Mac because the web (Office 365) version of Outlook lacks most of the advanced functionality in the first place. I was hoping I will be able to apply a rule to existing emails (not only those that will come in future) or perform an action on batch of emails. In the end this is not possible on the Mac version either.

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