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1) I need those for my bathroom.
2) Horribly unnecessary.
3) Horribly awesome.

wonder what the signs look like at apple.

That's a lot of instructions just for washing hands...

Will version 7.0 of this sign offer the user 20 different soaps to wash their hands with, but have trouble installing them all?

seriously, we don't wash our hands (properly) enough!

I also noticed that they still have flags flying on the mtn view campus telling everyone "security is your job" - this must be part of the same campaign promoting vigilance against viruses

I have to note the irony of a Microsoft sign about not passing on viruses.

Microsoft must have emergency tech writers & artists standing by, just in case an opportunity for hipster irony suddenly looms.

They forgot to add a horizontal and vertical scrollbar with a non-resizable window!

Doubles as instructions for
a) offending people in ASL
b) making shadow puppets

Vista must have designed the sign.

Being a former MS employee, doesn't surprise me one bit. Also, fitting that the pic was sent from an iPhone.

"A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want".(Niklaus Wirth). I'd say these instructions are going overboard. Something about Geeks not getting it? Dah!!!

we have the very same ones here at Rogers. Generic things from the Management for Dummies Book.

Did you wash your iPhone after that?

Does this mean the people at Microsoft, who are presumed to be amongst the best and brightest on the planet, need instructions on how to do something MOST of us were taught as very young children?

I already know how to wash my hands. As a bonus, I'm a .NET and C# pro with 8 years (yes, beta) of experience. Microsoft: Can I have a wicked cool job?

omg

Pretty lame talk, if I may say so. I went to hear you talk about innovation and all I got was a bunch of feature requests for product teams (that you have spoken to before, I should mention) that are not even located in Redmond.

Oh, and a bunch of "I don't know the answer to that question"; "better to be lucky than good", and "that is not the type of innovation I am talking about".

Trouble is, Guy, you did not talk about any type of innovation.

It's definitely Microsoft. It's defintely complicate. Funny @Nancy_White comment.

Very MS.....How would the sign look like at Apple?

I especially enjoy the "when should I wash my hands" part. Classic case of a bazooka for a fly. The over the top response is everywhere, not just at MSFT.

This is the Enterprise Edition of hand washing. Here's the Home Edition:

Turn on tap
Wave hands under the water
Shake hands a bit, then wipe against jeans

Awesome! The posting of handwashing signs in a restroom (if used by food employees) is legally required by the Health Department. They are legally compliant, always a plus!

I'm <kpretty sure</k hopeful that the extensive hand washing instructions form Microsoft is ironic...

all this hand wrangling about nothing...
wondering if this was adopted from the surgical ward

I wonder why they didn't put Braille tape on the sign as well to alert visually impaired, braille readers? Even so, nice post(erous)