WIN32.DLL

## Description

Like SM Word before it, _WIN32.DLL_ is an explicit stab at some of the
perceived interface failings and, here, security frailties of the at press-
time industry standard operating environment for personal computers, the many
flavours, all lacking, of Microsoft’s Windows operating system.

It simulates a never-ending deluge of pop-up windows cascading in an endless
parade of ridiculous system error messages. To take care of them, the user
need only click on the offending window; unfortunately, like the regenerating
heads of the mythical Hydra, more will return to take its place. Worse, if a
warning window is allowed to remain on the screen for too long, it permits a
piece of bloatware to sneak through a security hole (doubtless in Internet
Explorer or Outlook Express) and install itself, reflected along the bottom of
the in-game desktop task bar.

The faster a player dismisses a warning window by clicking on it, the higher
score it returns, but ultimately regardless of how long the player can keep up
this juggling act of GUI Whac-a-mole, the simulated environment’s resources
are eventually sufficiently depleted by the nuisance programs to lock up in a
fatal exception “blue screen of death”. The only solution really is to change
operating systems, but even that leaves users vulnerable to new and unexpected
threats.

WIN32.DLL