Windows Live Messenger now sucks.

Yesterday I tried to get my MSN Messenger to work (which several years ago was renamed Windows Live Messenger for some stupid reason, but much like how Andrea refuses to call Woolworthes anything but Safeway after the name change, I can't be bothered going with WLM). Yes, this post is a Windows whinge. I was hit with a message telling me that it would not open and that I must (they did say 'must') install the new inversion.

Pissed off moment 1: I have no choice in this.

Pissed off moment 2: Something that worked perfectly fine the day before has now been changed.

Pissed off moment 3: When it comes to Microsoft, myspace, blogspot, facebook, the cnn website, the Dilbert website, imdb.com, youtube, the university website, and countless more...no change has ever been better. It's been worse. Often they are so worse that I abandon whatever they've changed and they manage to drive a loyal customer away. I've said goodbye to Vista, myspace, imdb, pretty much youtube, and the university website, because they now suck. I'm pretty sure that I'm moving over to Mac in the future.

Pissed off moment 4: Change for the sake of change without improving anything deserves a universal slap across the face and a computer monitor shoved up someone's nose.

So, I start downloading this program, which must be huge because it took 40 minutes.

Pissed off moment 5: What the hell are they putting on my computer that requires a 40 minute download? Shouldn't it be easy to make a messenger program?

Pissed off moment 6: It then tells me that I need to restart the computer for this to take effect. I wait until morning.

So let's see if it was worth it.

No.

Not surprisingly, it's a piece of crap. It's all fancy, because Microsoft knows how to make something fancy, but stick a nice outfit on Paris Hilton and you still have a brainless moron, which sums up Vista quite well. And just a week ago they released Windows 7. So I'm betting that the new sparkly version of messenger is a way of getting me to upgrade to 7. That's not going to happen. I'm going to find out just what the problems are with 7 and no doubt chuckle to myself that Microsoft still can't do anything beyond a second-rate braindead bimbo.