{"id":3523,"date":"2007-01-02T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3523"},"modified":"2017-12-07T14:16:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T20:16:22","slug":"microsoft-offers-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/02\/microsoft-offers-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Offers Assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clicking through a link on my MSN Messager, I got the following helpful error message:<\/p>\n

\"MSN<\/center><\/p>\n

Note Microsoft’s tips:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. In your browser, click refresh.<\/b> But the URL is for a unique landing page, toobusy.html. So refreshing will only reload the error page.<\/i>\n
  2. In your browser, click Back, and try again.<\/b> But since I reached this page without navigation in the browser, the Back button is not enabled.<\/i>\n
  3. Wait a few minutes and try again.<\/b> Bingo.<\/i><\/ol>\n

    The screen offers me three options, only one of which I can actually try. In that case, the screen should only offer me a single option.<\/p>\n

    Such things lead a user to believe that maybe the application, or at least the copywriters behind the interface, are out of touch or incorrect sometimes. That blows a user’s trust in an application, or it should.<\/p>\n

    But me, I am in QA; I don’t trust my watch without checking it against my cell phone, the clock on the computer, and the clock on the phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Clicking through a link on my MSN Messager, I got the following helpful error message: Note Microsoft’s tips: In your browser, click refresh. But the URL is for a unique landing page, toobusy.html. So refreshing will only reload the error page. In your browser, click Back, and try again. But since I reached this page […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18342,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions\/18342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}