Who told you this was a polite request to close?
This rant comes from trying to close Firefox after it hung on a bad website today. (Let’s ignore the fact that a *website* managed to crash my browser for now.) I - of course - immediately opened task manager and tried to end the process. Then I waited, … and waited … and then waited some more. What IDIOT decided that a close command - via the task manager no less - should be a polite request to the application to shut itself down?! Damn it, I want that thing gone. Now!
Then things just go worse. After waiting 1/2 an hour in the hopes that it might _finally_ close, I tried to shut down Windows and reboot. End result: nada. I ended up having to manually remove power and force a restart.
The worst part about this little saga is just how often it happens. Someone at Microsoft needs to get the idea that applications are NOT to be trusted and that the user should be obeyed.