Modal Dialog Nuisance - Automatic Updates

Scene: Late morning, half hungry, and ready to finish on a proposal… All set to release that proposal for review before lunch, I sit back and type one more para to complete it. And there pops the mighty savior of desktops - Mr.Automatic Updates…unleashing its ugly MODAL dialog…

” Automatic updates for your computer is complete.”

Two option buttons. - ‘Restart Now’ and ‘Restart Later’ (my NSS team smartly disabled this…but why in this world will they do this???!!!) I dont have a choice. Click on my fate - Restart now, losing my unsaved work and wait patiently till the machine restarts.

I wish i can summon 3 people to answer this: 1. The person who discovered this novel idea of Dialog for doing Automatic Updates(Why is it called Automatic then…when it is manually intercepting my work) 2. MS Word - For not automatically saving my work temporarily (FYI - The smart chaps at google got this right. Gmail does this - Autosave Drafts) 3. The NSS person who decided to play with this and always made the snooze option invalid. What a great idea buddy. Please think of all scenarios of usage before u do something.

I remember some great person’s quote now: “Increasingly more and more decisions that affect millions of people are taken by lesser number of individuals”

And when they do a shoddy job - it shows!!!