Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Why I Hate Microsoft...and I DO!

So many reasons; so few cusswords. Almost from Day One of the Windows era I have disliked then hated Microsoft. Opening the box to get out 40 3.5" diskettes for Windows 98 was hard; then there were 20 CD's with OS2 which was IBM but I blame Microsoft for! Nothing with Windows Anything was EVER easy either and if you made a mistake on anything you paid for it 10X over. Support was marginal in the beginning and downright hideous now. Intuitive? They don't know they meaning of the word.
I had to buy a group license for 3 machines for Win 7 because I wanted to be legal on the two I need it on...at 159 USD! The PRICE for One lousy copy of Windows 7 is absurd, that's why I opted for the license for 3. If I wanted a license for 4 I would have had to pay full price for at least ONE of them. It's enough to make you go into the world of cracks and Torrents for your Windows 7 "purchase". They just behave like a bad bully whose house you HAVE to go by just to leave your house.
And then there's the different 'versions" ie: Stunted, Almost an OS, Sort of OS, OS.
It just pisses me off to be so much out of control, they ARE the original Grinch That Stole Christmas and Scrouge mushed together. Got sued in Europe for the same shenanigans they do and get away with here in the US. FTC hardly takes a look at them these days though they used to. Rich company keeping Intel and AMD rich as well. It's a bitch.

Some moments of mirth have come our way lately, Audrey in Love is one of them...her boyfriend-the-drummer and the 5 pieces of chicken experience. You can make it up. Let's just say he has an appetite that is "Growing Boy" while being 39 years of age and 300 lbs of male human being. He is a hungry sort to say the least. She had 1 piece and He: 5. 2nds anyone? 3rds? "Yes", he says..."Please".

Then more: We have been and ARE among the notorious "Mystery Shoppers" of current lore...checking on the quality of the services you get at various retail establishments in our local area. It's NOT lucrative, pay is shit to be sure but often enough it is a fun experience that takes us out of the worksite (oops...house) and we explore what, for us, is largely unexplored. Today it was a restaurant, which one will remain unsaid, and was a very thorough examination of food, servers, managers, gardeners (yes!) and the space itself. Fun and worth the price of admission as the amount received was sufficient to pay for lunch-for-two. A free lunch followed by an hour of writing about it in trivial detail. Great fun! Tonight...well we do it again! Yes, again we go out to eat. We will report on it by iNet tomorrow and so it goes with our little lives in Suisun City. It's NOT France but we're making the most of our small miseries.

Bye for now kiddies! Burp!