Entertaining blogpost. And reading the 2006 comment thread below is also pretty entertaining. All of the comments seem to be about ten years old. Most of them tend to agree that Microsoft seriously botched this feature. But there is also a very vocal minority who argue that Joel is a moron who should shut up and the thing that makes Windows so great is its flexibility, and all those 15 menu options make sense, and people should just shut up about their Macs and deal with the fact that Mac has just a teeny weeny market share.

Well, fast forward to 2017. MacBooks are all over the place. And when trying to shut down Windows 10, I'm faced with just three options: Sleep, Shut down, and Restart.

Vista really was the nadir of Microsoft in terms of UX, no matter how furiously some people contested this back in the day. And Joel was spot on.