WinXP: Master tool of satan.
Now, I’m a Windows user, I have no choice, absolutely none of the software I must use to do my job can run on a mac (And no, there is no magical software that will emulate an IBM on a mac that works, period). I have been messing with computers since 1980, have been on the internet more or less continuously since the Telnet days of the mid 80’s. I have used Unix, Linux, all the windows products, all the Mac products, and frankly, I have a hatred for all things computing that is unparallelled by anything else in my life. The computer is a tool to get me to the websites I want to see, to get my stuff out there for others to read. If I could do this any way but via computers, i would, in a heartbeat. When I go on vacation, I go where there are no computers, no phone service, barely power.
I have been using Win2k pro for many years now, and I can say that it is the most stable operating system that I’ve ever used; it runs and runs well.
Then we got WinXP at work. We replaced several computers, and upgraded others. I got a new Toshiba notebook with Winxp pro.
I install all the critical updates, I keep everything up to date, and do so religiously.
Still: WinXP crashes several times every single day. Now, granted, I use some pretty sophisticated software, but in all my years of using the software with Wn2k, I never had a solitary crash. At least ten times every day, I must deal with a popup from Dr Watson telling me “oh, there was a problem, do you want to send a report? ”
NO, YOU FUCKNUGETS. I DO NOT WANT TO SEND A REPORT. I want the software to WORK. i want it to FUNCTION the way an operating system was MEANT TO FUNCTION.
I was not put on earth to BETA TEST YOUR FUCKING SOFTWARE, YOU ASSCLOWNS OF EVIL! IF YOU WANT ME TO BE YOUR BETA TEST DEPARTMENT, I CAN SUGGEST SEVERAL PLACES WHERE YOU CAN INSERT YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM!
I cannot believe the gall of Microshaft, trying to pawn off this bullshit as a functional operating system. I think there’s a lot to be said for Win2k, and the fact that it WORKS. I’d like to grab the fuckweasels responsible for generating this code and insert them into the CD rom drive and laser etch a copy of Win2k onto their heads. I’d like to have a pushbutton on my desk, that would shock a Microshaft software engineer everytime I have a problem with the software. I’d like to take these numbskulls, mix them up with the morons running the Illinois Tollway, and use therm to PATCH POTHOLES. Good Lord, you idiots. Fix this shit before you start pumping the market full of it.
Right the fuck on, chief. It’s all junk. Besides Linux, 2000 Pro was the only thing I ever used that exhibited even a modicum of stability. XP is all over the place at my office and productivity is in the toilet because of it. But the IT shmoe has to have the latest and greatest. Upgrading was a shits and giggles thing, totally. No reason for it at all.
Fuck Microsoft……..
I’d like to have a pushbutton on my desk, that would shock a Microshaft software engineer everytime I have a problem with the software.
I like that idea even better than the paintball idea.
Og;
A FWIW aside: I have found (with Dells, anyway), that many problems can be plastered over with a cosmic shotgun reinstall of the OS — blow it all away, format the hard drive, and reinstall.
Of course, it helps if you’re set up to do this, and many systems are not (particularly OEM-installed systems), but once you are, it can be… liberating.
M
It’s true, it’s true, it’s all true!!!
And the saddest part of all is, Win XP is a quantum leap better than Win98…
Aw come on. Go ahead and send the report. You know you want to.
As has been pointed out, if someone sold any other product that they KNEW was so flawed, they’d probably get their backside sued off.
But with software, they just keep selling it.
Mark, that’s because they just keep buying it. And because, on net, it turns out to be a fair value. No one would want to wait long enough and pay enough for perfect code.
As for WinXP: experiences differ. I upgraded a Win2K machine to WinXP. I own three machines that shipped with WinXP, Tablet PC edition. I’m doing more demanding work than I did in my Win2K days. And my experience is uniformly more pleasant in every way: fewer crashes, easier maintenance, and better performance. The range of machines and configurations out there is so huge, no one can be sure how any single machine will behave.