This really is the worst feature in the world.

Windows XP downloads updates for you automatically, then installs them, then asserts your computer has to be restarted. You can click "restart later" but the assertion is simply repeated later. That's quite annoying, but I suppose one can get used to it.

But the most outrageous thing is that if you don't click "restart later" in time, it restarts your computer for you. If you take a short break for the computer - go for a coffee - and come back, you find your computer has no open windows. What about all those websites and documents and other things one was working on? Gone.

Windows really is so bad, one shouldn't use it.

It's amazing how they can't even get the simplest things of usability right (in this case: usability through consistency).

During Windows Updates, an icon appears on the icon tray. If you click it, you get this window.

How do you get it back on the task tray?

• The minimize button simply does nothing. When you click on it, the button shows its "pressed" icon, as if it would do something, but when you release the mouse, the button returns to its normal state, and nothing has happened.
• The close button, does not close the window in either the sense of a) stopping the process described in the window b) making the window go away altogether, but instead does indeed minimize the window to the task tray.

I'm sure more people worked on this feature than comprise the entire team of most of the projects I work on. But they still couldn't get it right.