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Window
to the nightmare
I’m
sure my relationship with Mr. Bill Gates and his products is not
unique and if you check the net you will find that others have
worse feelings towards him than me. I simply hate the bastard! To
get worse, there have been times I admire him!!! And these times
are equally as many as the times I hate him.
Ok,
imagine a life where you must eat and the only thing you can eat
is raw cauliflower. And you eat the bloody thing day after day,
week after week, month after month, year after year. It is the
same with Mr. Microsoft. For twenty years I have to eat the same
cauliflower and like it is not enough I always look forward for
his newest discovery.
In
the beginning it was MS Dos. Version 3 was good, version 5 a
disaster, version 6 just saved some things to come to version 7
and lose everything, and then the next cauliflower, Windows.
Supposed to be windows to a new environment, it was the bloody
widest door possible to the nightmare. Elm Street seemed like a
Disney film in front of Windows 2000. I lost two computers because
of them. Windows Millennium? I found my self a couple of times
ready to throw my PC out of the window and I was on the sixth
floor.
But
then, nothing would have happened without Windows. Think of it.
There are millions of users all around the world, probably
billions. And there are millions that their salary depends on
computers. Millions that work for computers and other millions
that works to improve computers.
In
an interview a couple of years ago, the new king of Jordan, when
he was still fresh on the throne, said that his country is very
poor and even though in the middle of oil rich countries is a
state without resources, so he was trying to lead his people to
follow the example of India and become a computer power. And all
that because of Mr. Gates. The one and only Mr. Gates.
What
about the internet? Check your PC and you'll find Instant
Messenger MSN, browser MS-explorer, one fifth of the people I know
they have Hotmail. All my programs work perfectly alright only
with Windows, however much penguins and other birds have tried.
Even my Mac has Windows programs, not to mention MS Word which is
one program after Windows that I haven’t seen any computer not
have. To make it worse, most of the Macs I know have it as well.
But
then when you buy a new equipment or try to install an old one you
just plug and pray that everything will work, otherwise you have
to buy a new one which will be compatible to the newest version of
Windows.
And
Bill Gates created the new Windows XP Professional and everybody
said, 'now you are going to be happy, everything works'. Oh yes,
it did indeed till I downloaded a security upgrade from the
Microsoft site and my computer crashed so badly that I had to
format the disk and lost two months of work. Of course, all of you
cleverly will say why you didn’t keep a backup! Yeah, when was
the last time you took a backup?
From
Ovi Magazine
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