Dear Microsoft...

[mapsedge]

Dear Microsoft,

I have to use Outlook 2000 at work. It's what they supply me with. So, when it bombs, and it does bomb from time to time, I don't bother to report it anymore. Why? Because your "fix" for the product is to upgrade to the next version. How about fixing problems, instead of replacing them?

Fuck you. Love,

Bill M.

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Dear Microsoft,

I keep Windows Update running because it saves me time, but as you know I exersize the option to not install some updates. "Windows Genuine Advantage", for instance.

Here's how Windows Update works: I click "Custom Install", then I uncheck "Windows Genuine Advantage" because I don't want your vir--- sorry, that particular update --- on my machine, then I click "Continue". Your dialog box pops up with "You will not be prompted again for this update" and I click OK. Strangely, though, when the next updates are ready, the WGA is back in the list.

I paid for my version of Windows.  I have the receipt.  There's nothing to gain by assuming I'm a criminal. I just want the freedom to change my hardware configuration and add/remove software without worrying that I'm going to mess up whatever half-baked copy-protected-paranoid scheme you insist upon forcing through the American consumers' collectively clenched - though tragically captive - jaws.

You can stop offering me the WGA. Really. I don't want it. I tell you this every damn time you offer it. I don't want it now, I won't want it tomorrow, I'm not going to want it e-v-e-r. 

Hey, while I'm thinking about it, have you checked out Xandros? Or Kubuntu with Wine? Just asking.

Love,

Bill M.

Comments

[aerie13.livejournal.com]

And yet you continue to roll your eyes at my mac. Hmph.

[billthetailor.livejournal.com]

Although I tease K & K mercilessly about theirs, I have never said Mac was a bad machine. See Frank's comment, below, for my general sentiment regarding Mac vs. PC.

To sum up, I'm not anti-Mac, just pro-PC.

I personally think Steve Jobs (if it was him at the time) screwed up years ago when he decided not to license the Mac hardware to outside manufacturers. If he had opened the market, we'd all be on Macs now.

[jehosefatz.livejournal.com]

I personally think Steve Jobs (if it was him at the time) screwed up years ago when he decided not to license the Mac hardware to outside manufacturers. If he had opened the market, we'd all be on Macs now.

Yuppers. Contiguous memory addressing on the 68000 chipset FTW!

- Jeho

[jehosefatz.livejournal.com]

I am Jehosefatz and I approve of this message.

- Jeho

PS -- As for Macs.... I don't mind Macs so much with OSX since they are essentially another flavor of *nix... in fact, I considered buying one when I replaced my main gaming machine a few months ago. If it weren't for the fact that I can get a PC which is 30% more machine for 30% less money and build it myself, I probably would have.

[aerie13.livejournal.com]

And there's the rub. As my friend's husband pointed out (she's mac and he's pc), macs are for those of us not interested in building our own machines. :-)

[jehosefatz.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not wedded to the idea of building my own, but because I can (because all of the essential technology bits have been licensed out to multiple 3rd parties a long time ago) the parts are cheaper. More power. Less money.

Where MS is a megalomaniac on the software side, Apple is on the hardware side. 6-in-1, 12/2 in the other, IMO.

- Jeho