Please Close Explorer.exe

While everyone else in the blogesphere is posting about how great OS X Tiger is – I find myself, yet again complaining about Microsoft. Actually, this time it’s more pointing and laughing than complaining. Check this out…

I saw a post on Neowin about the new Windows Messenger. First off, I didn’t even realize that was still around… and what’s the point since MSN is obviously dominating the IM market. In any case, the lack of screenshots and documentation followed by reading all of the positive feedback enticed me to download it. After validating my OS (so lame), I was quickly prompted to shut down a few programs if I wanted to avoid having to restart Windows after installation.

Ummm…

Wow! Really? Shut down Explorer.exe? After I shut down the process that actually runs my OS, I’m supposed to shut down the process behind my mouse and keyboard? Who thought this was a good idea?