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MS just has to be into everything

MS is like the annoying little twerp in your neighborhood that you knew growing up. He just had to tag along wherever you and your friends went, even though you had no interest in his company. If you played baseball, he begged to be allowed to play on your team and would madly swing at a ball five feet over his head. If you went and climbed trees, he stuck alongside like he was on a leash, invariably trodding upon your fingers as he lumbered from branch to branch. If said you were going to go to the movies, he would run home to plead with his Mom for money so he could go to. Yammering all the while through the picture, of course and helping himself to your popcorn.

How nice for Microsoft that they've got tentacles out to capture the search engine market, along with PDAs, home entertainment, multimedia programs, and all the other areas they've butted into to spew their dumbed-down low-quality proprietary junk.

Meanwhile, Windows still takes too long to load, has no decent internal search structure, offers unpatched vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, boasts of worthless features like Last Known Good Configuration, System Restore and Remote Assistance none of which have ever worked on any box I've administered and crashes with wonderfully eloquent errors such as "The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000000a (0x10c6d063, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x8012e581)." Search for their error messages on the pathetic MS knowledgebase and either you are greeted with "no results found" or an irrelevant article claiming the source of the problem is a condition that doesn't exist (i.e. "this problem occurs when the computer has multiple NICs.") or the problem was fixed in a service pack you already installed months ago. Number of problems I've researched online over the years: thousands. Number of solutions found on the MS site: zero.

And let's not forget their cash cow, Office. As MS tries to wriggle into the search engine scene, Office products are still poorly documented crashprone garbage most famous for having a ridiculous paper clip stalk and harass you when trying to figure out the software. Whoever authorized the sale of Entourage, the Mac Exchange client which is loaded with more bugs than a Texas outhouse, belongs in jail for fraud.

MS, stay home and work on your chores - fixing your existing products - before you race out into the neighborhood to make sure that nobody is having fun ANYWHERE without you tagging along.

Posted by: mreilly19   Posted on: 07/01/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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