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pichlo
2015-07-30 , 14:19
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Originally Posted by
gerbick
Well... this is cute.
Something went wrong
error message. And that's... it. Wow.
Sign of the times, my friend. Many applications do that nowadays, not only famous operating systems. The purported argument is that a detailed error description is not helpful to Aunt Tilly, who will not know what to do with them and may even get scared away by the technical details. And there may even be a point to that argument - just read the first comment to
this Jolla update
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So software producers in general and Windows in particular have moved from providing a full stack and registers dump to a vague "something happened" message. Something like "something happened, click here for details" has apparently not occurred to them.
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