Broken Windows

My laptop's on the blink, which means the IT texhnician has been looking at it for a couple of days. Today's installment was no different: in fact, the IT man said "I think that there is a more sinister problem with the Operating System on your laptop than just a fault in Outlook".

Sinister? What is that in computer terms? Alien invasion? Freddie Kruger's taken residence in the hard drive? Some would argue that the most sinister thing is actually the "evil and incompetent" Microsoft operating system ...