I’m done, Microsoft. Finished. I will devote no further fraction of my life to coaxing your awful products to do simple, useful things. Enough. Done.
I recently bought a Dell laptop to replace a years-old Gateway that finally expired. The laptop came with Vista. The laptop would not, for love, money, threats, pleading, or force of will, connect to my simple home network. I worked and worked on the problem. I investigated solutions on the net. I tweaked obscure settings in the network stack. I uttered mighty oaths. Nothing. I finally spent $29.95 on a product called Network Magic that instantly connected the benighted machine to the LAN and to a printer on my desktop machine.
That’s not the only reason. Vista, and I say this with a minimum of prejudice, appears to be a stinking pile of of featurettes, pet projects, gizmos, wingdings, and doodads assembled by a commitee and heaped upon Windows XP. It is disorganized and formless. It is without logic. It is an insult.
A great sense of peace has settled over me. This is a decision for the ages. Next time around it will be Mac, Linux, or both. And I will waste no more of my life fixing the car instead of driving the car. Good night.
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October 11, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Woo-hoo! You go, Dan!