I today witnessed yet another Windows presentation disaster.

Well, the presentation itself was good and well done (using latex-beamer).

But Windows continuously sabotaged the presentation. Every 5 Minutes, Windows announced that it’s going to reboot soon, because it has installed some upgrades, and gave the presenter a 5 minute countdown that he could only postpone, but not disable until the presentation was over.

It was really annoying to have this stupid “Hey, I’ve installed a security upgrade, I’ll reboot in 5 minutes to complete that installation” pop up again and again and again during the presentation…

check out this report of this ‘nag until the user restarts’ functionality in windows

Windows is Nagware. I wonder when Microsoft will add a function that pops up in the middle of any PowerPoint presentation if it thinks your copy is pirated and tell your audience you’re a dumbass.