Epic Bill Gates e-mail rant from 2003

It reminds me of what I still have to go though every time I try to connect my kid’s Windows machine to a new hotspot.

Oh, come on. You click the icon, you find the hotspot in the list, you type the passphrase, you answer a confusingly-worded question about whether you want to be friends with everybody on the network, you’re done. How is that harder than connecting a Mac? The Mac icon is shaped differently, but that’s about it.

Furthermore: although Windows 10 now defaults to always hiding the passphrase, at least there’s a thing you can click on to check your spelling. Compare and contrast with the f***ing iPhone, where you can only see the passphrase one letter at a time, and God help you if you make a mistake or the passphrase is more than a few letters long.

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