Microsoft is trying to kill me
During the Christmas Homes Tour (which went very well … thank you to all who attended) I tried to display construction photos of my house on my computer. I used the slide show feature that is part of Windows Vista — huge mistake. The slide show locked up the computer over and over. Yes, yes … I should’ve known better. All “features” of Vista are actually attempts to kill the user through terminal frustration. I knew that and tried it anyway.
Traditionally you could hit control-alt-delete to recover from one of Windows’ many many many glitches. No more. Vista doesn’t respond to control-alt-delete. Which makes sense — can’t allow anything that would lessen the user’s frustration. The reset button has also been removed from computers. The only way to unlock the stupid thing is to hold in the power button for 8 seconds until it shuts down. Graceful!
The slide show isn’t the only part of Vista that locks up. Pretty much anything that’s Microsoft-made locks up sooner or later (mostly sooner). Luckily other software publishers aren’t in on the plot to kill all computer users, so their software works much better.
I wonder if anyone has ever studied how many computer users have heart-attacks and strokes out of pure frustration every year? I bet the number is in the tens of thousands. Which makes Microsoft one of America’s leading killers, right up there with drunk drivers and trans-fats.
3 comments December 11th, 2007
