And why does the windows update window suddenly disappear when I click the 'Install' button; why is the 'Configure automatic updates' option in that same window some sort of hyperlink instead of a normal button, why...

Why keeps everybody saying that windows provides a consistent, userfriendly user interface? [/me looks at the interface of the various default microsoft programs, which vary even more widely than the various Mac OS-X programs do these days, not even considering the tons of third party programs that are skinned by default and don't even look remotely like the windows theme I've installed]