Bye bye windows

In continuation to yesterday’s post, where the new version of windows messenger pissed me off (I had to go and change all of the updated options back to a bare-bones that I actually want and use, so messenger clearly had no interest in retaining my settings and just went with whatever the multinational corporation thought I would like), it seems as though windows has finally broken that last straw (who’d have thought that it would not be because of Vista???).

This morning I turned on my computer and within five minutes (no exaggeration in time), I got a pop-up that I saw two nights ago that said “updates have been automatically installed onto your computer. You must restart your computer for these to take effect.” Below this message was a countdown timer from 15 minutes. No matter what I did the other night I could not stop or delay the timer. And since I was in the middle of watching a movie this really pissed me off. So today these vital windows updates managed to piss me off within just five minutes. I rebooted, hopefully to save some more brain cells lost trying to figure out why a company would do this.

Then something fairly standard happened with my new swanky messenger program that was installed recently (because windows did not like me using the older version): it locked up as soon as it went online. Wonderful. It locked up as well yesterday when it was used for the first time, and the day before. Three out of three lock-ups.

And then five new pop-ups from all various programs saying that new updates are available and that I really should download them now, but need to be logged in as an administrator, and the only option I have is the ‘remind me later’ button.

So I have made an executive decision. No more windows. No more microsoft. As soon as I need to get a new computer it will not run windows. Right now Mac is looking like the obvious choice. But I like my computer, and there lies a problem. I guess either way it will be better than another windows fiasco.

Also, today I will be looking for a different messenger program. Maybe yahoo, or gmail, or whatever, and I will use that to chat to people. I’m going to try and get rid of this new windows messenger because it sucks.

And I can finally sum up what is wrong with windows: there has never been a single upgrade that was better than the preceeding version (from the point of view of a customer that has used windows since the early 1990s). Dear windows: stop changing things when they don’t need to be changed. ‘New’ is not ‘better’.