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Windows Vista CD/DVD bug.

13 December 2006
Written by: Chris Austin Posted under Uncategorized

Ok this is lame.

If you accidently ‘open’ or ‘explore’ a empty CD or DVD drive in Windows Vista you are given this friendly dialog.

Vista Eject Dialog

But, before you can cancel, the os opens/ejects the cd tray.

I won’t comment on the potential for damage to hardware as it is pretty obvious. What I don’t get is how on earth did this make it through a couple of betas and release candidates?


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  1. Allen.H said,

    on December 14th, 2006 at 4:56 pm

    I’m sorry if this sounds cheeky, but i couldn’t stop laughing after reading this. It’d be so funny to see Microsoft getting globally debunked on Vista’s first day.

    Allen.H

  2. Chris Austin said,

    on December 14th, 2006 at 5:21 pm

    Allen

    To be honest Vista isn’t too bad. I’ve been running it for about 2 or 3 weeks now since I am a MSDN subscriber.

    But, I just thought this bit was incredibly silly.

    Trying to be honest a fair, I will say that Visa seems to run faster on my hardware than fresh install of XP.

  3. Blaise said,

    on March 21st, 2007 at 3:04 pm

    I purchased the new Window Vista and just opened a new double CD to play and rip.
    Media player only recognized one of the CD’s.
    The other tells me to insert a CD and then kicks it out. I know where I would like to insert it…

  4. JingLuo said,

    on March 30th, 2007 at 8:51 pm

    This might be useful to my father and mother in China, for they’ve never used a computer. But not for us.
    I think Micrsoft can make it a preference to users and we can disable this function as we like.

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