I never was a true Windows Fanatic. That’s an understatement.

I am sincerely dismayed. Speechless. This Microsoft thing is just a nightmare.

Not that I didn’t know before… but when you hit your nose head into a thick glass wall, you tend to realize with greater depth that what looks transparent may be just as hard as steel.

What happened?

One week and two days ago, I went out to buy a new laptop as my beloved “Gerbera” had suddenly died of multiple cancerous infections which gradually disabilitated it to the final bliss.

Gerbera was a nice, sleek and sturdy Pentium III laptop, which I had been having as my best partner for the last four years. The overusage and the adventurous life I had taken it through made it look like a scientist/hacker machine, with key parts glaringly missing from the chassis and internal mechanics taking a tan when outdoors.

No, it wasn’t that bad, but it definitely showed that someone had had some intense use of it over extended periods of time.

So, Gerbera had been clearly announcing her nearing the moment of passage and coincidence wanted that the day after I went out to buy a new Centrino laptop with which I am writing now, Gerbera felt ready for her definite good bye.

After Gerbera’s demise, I really got mixed up in the bad company of Microsoft when I wanted to have a brand new system configured.

[Read what nightmare Microsoft brought to me at broad daylight.]