Microsoft: the Truth is Finally Revealed

I like Microsoft…
- for putting links in eventlog items where you can look for more information, only to get a 9 out of 10 ‘no information available’ while a Google search brings you to the appropriate KB article most of the times,
- for eventlog entries where there is absolutely nothing to be found online,
- for stupid error messages,
- for the dumbness of Live Search and the annoying attempts to make it the default search engine,
- for removing the ‘arrow up’ in the explorer,
- for introducing extra mouse clicks with every new version of Windows for almost anything,
- for stupid defaults,
- for stupid defaults that only can be changed temporarily,
- for now mandatory sorting network machines on their descriptions followed by the actual machine names between brackets instead of sorting on actual machine names and keeping descriptions only in the descriptions column, and no way in hell to change this,
- for pausing copying/moving sessions with annoying pop up boxes where ‘yes to all’ does not actually mean ‘yes to all’,
- for not having a ‘no to all’ option moving/copying
- for stopping copying/moving altogether when a file is in use, which also makes it impossible to quickly copy a profile using the explorer,
- for not allowing optional columns like IP adresses and other properties,
- for everlasting pop up boxes stealing the focus while typing,
- for keeping the bug alive in Microsoft update that automatically denies the license agreement for Silverlight,
- for Search 4.0 which disables the genuine search function because it first needs to index everything for a couple of hours,
- for RunOnce Hell appearing everywhere, including in terminal server sessions for ordinary users,
- for non working policy settings like ‘do not show pop up boxes’,
- for changing interfaces with no option to keep using older interfaces,
- for moving tabs and pages with settings with every new Windows version,
- for moving webpages on the MS website around so that links embedded in the OS only work for a limited time
- for still allowing processes to occupy 100% CPU and/or huge amounts of memory by default instead of optional.
- for having Windows to rebuild the complete desktop first when a process goes 100%, including the window that contains the 100% CPU process, before task manager or process explorer can be accessed,
- for its classic non responsive browser windows when i.e. clicked on a network machine that is unavailable,
- for not providing the option to cancel an operation that is useless and freezes a Window, forcing a user to hard kill the process in task manager/process explorer or wait for ages,
- for degrading administrator privileges to those of a crippled super user,
- for not allowing the actual administrator to completely take over the machine and its processes,
- for allowing applications and third party tools to write temporary as well as permanent files in the Windows core directories,
- for changing entries in the URL box in Internet Explorer when redirected or when a page is not found,
- for having two profiles for the same user, username and username.domain, depending on how the user logs on
- for having terminal server clients suggesting ordinary users to log on to the terminal server or its IP address rather than its domain,
- for having monkeys testing functionality so that users and engineers can safely be ignored.

That’s why I use Linux also.

You mentioned your “teammates” having Windows issues, sounds like they maybe on the wrong team. Why not move them to the Linux Team!

Ball: Your name seems familiar somehow….

Bobz: Plans are in-place. Evil plans.