Unnervingly vague error messages from 1976

Let me tell you how much rage I feel these days at Windows’ huge shift toward casual language (giving it a very Steve Buscemi feel), and vague error messages.

HResult error codes may not be particularly friendly but damnit they are at least usually helpful (unless you just scatter E_FAIL or E_UNEXPECTEDs everywhere, in which case, you suck). Now it’s all, “oops”, and “something went wrong”.

Gah.

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