Showing posts with label help. Show all posts
Showing posts with label help. Show all posts

Wednesday, 3 May 2017

Microsoft Feedback - Was this helpful?

Recently I requested Help from a Windows application and received the following dialog popup.




I found it interesting  that the Help did not work and then it asked whether this was helpful. The link to the Microsoft Support was also not helpful because it did not take me to the related issue. I can see the reason why this occurred and it is because of the Microsoft Help framework always asks whether the help was helpful, but I think Microsoft could have improved on the information in the dialog by including a relevant link to the exact support page for the issue, or a link to a knowledge base article about the issue.

Over the years I have found that Microsoft do have problems with Help, one of the problem being some of it does not relate to the product version you have because they have constantly been changing features and location of features. Eventually I hope it will get a framework that works and knows which product you are using and gives the relevant help you request.

Saturday, 6 September 2014

Useless Windows Error Message

The other day I was working and tried to look up some help from an application and received the following error message below.

It looks like the latest version of Windows does not contain the ability to open the help file, but instead of giving a useful information to how the problem can be resolved (link did not help) it asks the question 'Was this helpful?'.

Once again this made me think what is going on at Microsoft that allows their software to pass the QA testing with messages like the one above.