Computers Suck

[joflasher]

Work -- ;
While I know you are just trying to make your sys admins lives easier, allowing Microsoft to automatically update your entire computer network remotely is NOT A GOOD IDEA. You'd think having your admins swamped with complaints and your computers comatose after every major push, you'd realize that you aren't saving any time or money.

Microsoft Office 2007 -= 100;
That is the most GOD AWFUL user interface I've seen in a long time. And I work with home grown engineering interfaces every day, so I KNOW God Awful GUIs, oh yes I do. That blue on blue shit is burning my eyes and I've only been looking at it for 10 minutes. Tell me there's a way back to some classic view that doesn't eat up half my screen real estate with cutesy little menu icons .

Microsoft XP 64 -= 200;
Not work related but you can bite me too. You've only been out for how many years? And how many drivers DON'T exist for you yet? My printer, my scanner. I even had to hack some shit together to get sound to play through the bastard thing and that sound card is brand spanking new. I'm to old to be hacking drivers, you rat bastards. I thought the days of printing out massive hardware compatibilities lists were over but I was wrong. And if you think for a moment I'm installing Vista on ANYTHING I own, you're sadly mistaken. That sorry assed brain child has a minimum of two more years before I'll consider it anything close to stable. God, if it wasn't for the fact that I don't want to buy Photoshop again, I'd so have a Mac by now.

This message brought to you by Microsoft in its many and varied configurations. Microsoft, proudly increasing my hatred of technology, one application at a time!

Comments

[talldean.livejournal.com]

In Microsoft's defense, it's the hardware vendors who are behind on XPx64 support, although it seems like most of them just decided to skip forward and support Vista. Vista, for what it's worth, seems pretty darn stable.

Maybe try OpenOffice instead of 2007?

[jeliza]

Don't know if you are fully upgraded on photoshop yet, but when our studio changed over from a mac shop to a pc shop (before my time) we wrote a letter to adobe, and they changed our license over so we could upgrade without buying the whole thing, even with the platform change. I don't know if they are still doing it, but it may be worth checking out if you are sick of PC land.

[flasher.livejournal.com]

At home, sure. At work, its not my choice. Hell, if it were my choice, I'd have stuck with 2003 and only the XP-64 thing would have shown up here.

I already get evil looks from the support personnel for having Firefox installed. It disappears every time my computer is upgraded. IE just gives me hives, though.

[talldean.livejournal.com]

How can a competent tech hate Firefox?? Ow!

[flasher.livejournal.com]

Because they are ruled by less than competent upper level management who believe that all systems must be identical.

Also, as far as the drivers are concerned, yeah, its the HW people who need to write them. However, MS made it pretty clear that they consider XP 64 a lesser entity to Vista. Without MS pushing, the HW people don't have a lot of motivation to support their devices on XP.