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[–] [email protected] 277 points 2 months ago (34 children)

I saw that happen once in a big presentation.

There was a team of students presenting their work to ~200 people. Right in the middle, a pop-up says updates are finished and the computer needs to restart. It has a helpful 60-second countdown, but "cancel" is grayed out, so all they can do is watch.

I was only in the audience and I still have nightmares.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The super duper shitty thing is that they could have canceled it by opening the Run dialog box and typing "shutdown -a", so it's not even like canceling wasn't an option. M$ just decided to be dicks about it

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

M$ just decided to be dicks about it

A most concise yet comprehensive company bio.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe? If I recall correctly, this was Windows XP. Also the computer was owned by the school, so the students didn't have admin access.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That screen didn't exist in Win XP. If it had, it would have been a different shade of blue. This is either Win10 though I suspect it's Win11.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The event I'm referring to wasn't OP's photo. Mine was back in 2004 or 2005, long before Win10 was released.

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