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the stupidity of microsoft.

07.17.2004 1:03 p.m.

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my better half got me a really kickass laptop for my birthday, we�re talking all the bells and whistles, 17� screen, dvd player and burner, cd burner, media package so i can do all sorts of fun thing with music and movies, more memory and video card than i will ever need... and it is blue and has fun blue lights (the tech-savvy are laughing at me right now, but to those of us new to fun technology, that is a rockin' feature).

i love this computer, and it is officially the fastest and best in a household of four computers�four computers, two people (read: geeks). when the cats learn how attack the zombies by using the mouse, and not just do stealth attacks ON the mouse, we�ll be all set. i know what you�re thinking, but we do have lives, really! okay, for the most part, our lives revolve around alternate realities of blowing up monsters or nazis, and reading about other peoples lives online--but we do travel a lot, have friends (that aren�t just found online), go out, go to shows and we have a smashingly good sex life�

so anyway, this computer is in the first generation in which microsoft is really being a farging icehole (more so than usual). the first thing i did when i got the new computer is want to write something fun, after all, i�m a writer and this is my new palate--i had to christen it. so i go to the handy dandy little start menu, click all programs, and search out the ever faithful, but always counterintuitive microsoft office.

but wait, there�s two microsofts--office and works. wait just one second here. what�s that all about? nonetheless i go, i click word, and it starts to pop and i feel all is right with the world. my worldly calm is shattered however when a big old access denied screen pops up and asks for my license code. thinking this is normal i ask my better half for the code thinking it is standard issue for having never had a new computer of my own before. then my better half shattered my faith in the world of corporate monopolies--they now install it on the computer, but you actually have to go out and buy it to use it. seriously, is that right? i don�t think so. the whole understanding of dropping x number of dollars on a computer is that you�re going to have access to everything that is on it. silly naive me.

after bitching and cursing the life of bill gates, i went and opened the ms works section, which has everything in it office does, only with different names, and boring icons. right now, i�m writing on works, and i�ve yet to find any differences to word. bastards.

dear bill gates:

you�re an asshole.

sincerely,

saamba.



 0 wrote to say im an idiot.


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