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So I have a Mac laptop, but at work I am forced to use a Windows computer. ALl I know is that every couple of months, I get a message upon startup that the "encryption codes" need to be updated, and I am supposed to "generate random data" by moving my mouse all over for a minute. As you do that, you watch a bar fill from 0% to 100% slowly. WTF is this? Seriously.
Also, the way Microsoft interupts to remind you of updates is fucking irritating. If you overlook the message, the compute automatically restarts. I hate it so much.
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I hate you Vista.
Yes, I am sure.
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Microsoft is like the boyfriend with a tiny penis, a drinking problem, and a serious anxiety disorder who you stayed with for years anyway just because you're one of those forgiving idiots willing to overlook the blatant defects given to others by God himself.
You realize, after several months, that he is now so deeply ingrained in your life that you really couldn't walk away even if you wanted to; even though you are annoyed by the sound of him chewing, the way his face scrunches up when he busts a nut 3 minutes into what was supposed to be an all night, balls out love fest, and the sound of his voice in your ear.
Let's start, first and foremost with Microsoft's latest failure (Windows Vista excluded because I haven't been moronic enough to even bother upgrading from XP): Windows Mobile 6.
I let their slick marketing campaign, cleverly plastered across the places upwardly mobile professionals such as myself frequent like BART stations, convince me that in order to increase my productivity among the corporate set I NEEDED THIS. I needed all my Excel spreadsheets available to me at all hours; should I, you know, need to pull sales data at 1 in the fucking morning from the bar.
Well you know what? That would have been a GREAT idea except for the part where Windows Mobile 6 is Microsoft's most epic failure to date.
I have had to master reset my phone FIVE times since January, losing all my precious text messages (hello! I like to keep the evidence, you motherfuckers, what is the point of having a phone with nearly limitless text message memory if I have to pull an Arthur Andersen and wipe it clean every three fucking weeks?!). Verizon stated implicity that this is the problem with Windows Mobile 6. The technical diagnosis, I shit you not, was FAIL.
Let's not get into Microsoft Office 2007. I clung desperately to 2003, knowing that just like the small penis ex-boyfriend, Microsoft had established that it didn't deal well with change - even when Microsoft itself told you that you NEEDED this change in order to be a better corporate whore, a better casual user, and a better human being. When my colleagues finally got fed up with having to convert every Excel sheet into 2003 format just so Adrienne and her dinosaur ass could read it, I gave in, regretting it even before it finished installing.
Who gives a fuck about a pretty fucking GUI when my entire fucking system has to come to a screeching halt every 3 minutes to receive my e-mail?! How fucking productive is THAT?!
You motherfuckers. Here I have been loyal to you since the days of green screens, flight simulator on a 5 inch floppy, and DOS - and THIS is how you repay me?! With failure after failure after failure?!
Fuck you. At least small penis ex-boyfriend would have had the decency to go down on me to make up for his obvious lack of usefulness.
Bill Gates, I hope you're listening. It's been SEVENTEEN FUCKING YEARS that I've been putting up with this shit. You better go down on me until I see fucking God.
Bitch ass.
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Good thing Bill Gates did what he did.
We would all be under the power of Apple.
However, I think maybe Microsoft and Apple should calaborate like U2 and Green Day, Tupac and Biggie, Kanye West and Daft Punk. Yeah!!!
Maybe we might be able to get off this polluted planet.
but then again it might be called
Planet "Soft Apple"
Thanks anyway Billy
Oh boo, all you haters.
Hip Hip Hooray for capitalism!
Thanx for keeping our local economy strong. Everyone in the Puget sound enjoys a higher standard of living because of companies like Microsoft and Boeing.
Find me a bigger philanthropist than Bill Gates.
That's what I thought, you can't.
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OK Update time.
Vista sucks, I'm switching back to XP.
Minus one star for shitty Vista
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All I have to say is, "Microsoft, WTF is up with Vista?!"
I bought a brand new computer and had no choice but to get it with Vista. The computer works fine except for Vista. Apparently nothing else, including the antivirus they installed on the machine along with Vista, really works well with Vista. Yes it's pretty to look at, but I need a computer that actually works--it isn't a piece of art. I have reformatted it five times already. Sigh.
I only gave them an extra star because I still like using Microsoft Office.
p.s. No, I don't work for Microsoft (and it isn't because I couldn't get hired either--they offered me the opportunity once). It might be a nice place to work, and it's cool that the people who work there believe in it, and give it five stars. It's good that they help the WA economy and all, but I am not reviewing them as an employer. I am also not reviewing Bill Gates, or Bill as philanthropist (he should be with all that cash). Back in the day, I would have given them lots more stars for their products. I didn't give them five stars because lately their product sucks. Sorry, but it's the truth.
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I love MS and love working for MS. The only people I can see not giving MS 5 stars are the people who cant get hired. ;-p
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I can't really hate on Microsoft they make great products...most of the time. When I interviewed at Microsoft I was treated very well, and they had some great benefits...I was just offered better benefits and salary at my current job. But if that were not the case, I'd definitely be a cubicle monkey for Microsoft. Anyway Yay for keeping Seattle on the map.
~G
The funniest thing about Internet Explorer crashing is the little window that pops up which reads:
"Report this problem to Microsoft"
For what?! They're not going to fix it anyway! If they can't get a operating system right, I doubt IE crashing is anywhere near the top of their list of issues to look into.
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Now here's today's "Great Moments in History", taken from the archives of the Associated Press. Dateline Berlin Sept. 2,1939: In response to criticism of yesterday's invasion of Poland by the German Army, Adolf Hitler issued the following statement: "We think the combination of Germany and Poland makes for a more competitive marketplace. The theme here is growth, and Germany definitely wants to grow as fast as possible." Responding to claims by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that Germany's acquisition of Poland is "anti-competitive", Hitler said "We think this will enhance competition, and anything else would be less good." This has been another Great Moment in History.
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The Evil Empire - where should I start? I'll add more day by day - tonight at break time - history lesson 1 on M$. I start with 1 star cause I can't give 0 or minus stars for the company whose only innovation has been plagiarizing everyone else's ideas - it would only be stealing if they made it at least as good as the original.
My children, in the early days in 1975 there was a company who produced one of the first microcomputers for commercial (actually more for hobbyist) use. It was a company named Altair and it was programmed by using 8080 processor op codes - a tedious task at best. Late in 1975, they were contacted by a pair of shady characters showed up on the scene who claimed to have a BASIC programming language. They got a version working on one of the mini computers of the day and sold it to Altair - and their company name Micro-Soft.
Later in 1975, another company who couldn't get the amount of Altair computers they wanted to order started producing their own - the IMSAI 8080. It actually had a Real operating system - from CP/M.
Tomorrow night - maybe I'll add some about TandySoft BASIC and AppleSoft BASIC - guess who developed those too? The same Micro-Soft.
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Simply based on what this company has done for cleaning up the region and its real estate, I give them a giant thumbs up.
In the mid '90s this town needed a paint job, badly. Most everything looked dingy, old but not in a classic or timeless sense. Old as in ...dirty.
How you like us now!?
The O.G.'s will cry about the past; how it's not like it used to be. Well, it never is. I would rather see the reformation of vibrant neighborhoods than the blight we had in '94.
Microsoft is solely responsible for everything from the restoration of Paramount Theatre, Cinerama, the Central District, and much, much, much more.
I hear they do software too!
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Been There and Done that.
The best thing about this campus is the field in the middle and the many basketball courts. They also have big parties in the summer which you can crash pretty easily if you look geeky enough :)
The flexible hours and free drinks are big pluses. Another plus is getting your own office where you can surfe the web or work hard as the mood strikes you. Independence and freedom is what America is all about.
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Upgraded to Vista.
I know I am late and I am so thankful to MS that they didn't make the following a default "feature".......
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I used to love you. I always bought OS/updates, always gave in to your powers. Alas, my Xbox 360 or Crapbox has the infamous "red light" syndrome and it will take you 3-4 weeks to repair. Considering the console is only 10 months old, W-the-double-f00k?! My PS2 and Gamecube which are much, much older are still running fine, but your Crapbox 360 next generation console has already crapped out. When I get this back, I'll sell it and gladly buy myself a PS3. Ugh.
Oh, your Customer Service automated system SUCKS donkey balls. We have to talk to some computer generated "cool guy" just to get to a real person. You MS, have lost my business and everyone else's that I know and will know. Goodbye.
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For all the people that posted 5 Stars, its obvious you work at microsoft. My problem isn't with the software. It's hard to get billions of lines of code to work together. My problem is with their economic policies.
"The whole idea of the H1B visa thing is, don't let too many smart people come into the country. The thing basically doesn't make sense." - Gates, circa 2005
There is currently a 115,000 H1B limit for fiscal year 2008. Not all for microsoft mind you but for all companies in America (a lot go to Microsoft). The limit of 65,000 H1B petitions was reached for fiscal year 2007 four months before the start of the fiscal year. This is the same visa class H. Clinton is trying to increase. Whaaa?!
The visa program is about letting skilled workers come work for US companies that are having a hard time finding workers for their specific jobs (for the amount of pay and/or experience requirements) on a temporary basis for no longer then six years.
(Now when I say skilled workers it usually mean someone that knows how to program code. The ditch diggers of the programming world. Because face it, who wants to write code all bloody day? I heard a microsoft exec refer to the program as a velvet sweatshop. How true.)
This sounds all fine and dandy because that's what the IT companies are telling the press and its true.
What they did not include in their statement is the fact that those H1B workers, after three years are allowed to apply for a Permanent Residence (Green Card) and live in the United States indefinitely. There are two obvious problems with this.
It 1) eliminates their 6 year limit. 2) 1 US job is now permanently lost to a foreign worker at lower pay and experience.
So yes, Microsoft did pick up the Seattle area in the '90s as stated. It built one city, Seattle. But in doing so eroded all of America. Their business plan is not the same as it was a decade ago. Real estate prices are outrageous. Only the elite six-figure income H1Bs can afford homes in the city. Yes there are bottomless drinks for free, super...
Now I'm not against fair foreign trade but that's not what this is about. What happened to educating our population so they CAN do this kind of work? This is about how many dollars you can save. That's the bottom line.
I'm not in the IT field incase you're wondering.
(- 1 star for every job lost)
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I'm giving Microsoft 1 star for their unnatural monopoly, poor business practices, lax ethics, their notoriously unstable and vulnerable software and pure smugness.
Props to Gates for his great philanthropic contributions around the world - it almost makes up for the countless hours humanity will spend restarting their crashed Windows operating systems.
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Can I take a different approach here? I appreciate Microsoft on behalf of Seattle, the direct beneficiary of its success. The shear number of jobs created, the increase in the average education, the wealth generated and spent supporting great local restaurants to Yelp about, and the periphery industries that have subsequently been set up have transformed our sleepy blue collar Boeing town into a high flying tech mecca.
If the world wants to vote with their wallets, and in doing so send their money our way, I don't have a problem with that. Especially when the founder goes on to become the greatest philanthropist the world has ever seen (hey, he could be a jerk and give all his money to his kids).
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I can see what they're going for, but they just don't quite get there. If they just took that extra step, their products could be truly useful and help productivity. Unfortunately, the time you save with the features that are good is canceled out by the time you spend fighting with the tool itself.
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I base this rating not on the amount of money made, the inevitable decline of empire (give my best to Wang), or whatever my own personal choices in technology may be.
This one star is for pure chutzpah. Never have I encountered such a corporate culture that inspires and cultivates such an amazing amount of corporate douchbaggery. It is a monolithic achievement for the ages.
Any organization that can employ people who honestly seem to really believe what they are saying when they are belching out prepared counterpoints developed in misinformation skunkworks should have transfered into politics or begun buying small countries some time ago and have started a tide of kool-aid powered conquest the greatness of which the world has never seen.
Wait. Maybe I should give them a five.
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I don't have a particularly strong opinion on Microsoft's business practices. However, I am a Mac user at work and Entourage (what I assume is supposed to be the equivalent of Outlook on PCs) has got to be the most retarded email program ever. From the people who made Outlook, I would expect more out of Entourage.
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What?! How can you hate Microsoft? I'm sitting here right now, it's great. The ambiance is subtle, yet sophisticated. The coffee is great and the drinks are bottomless.
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There's pretty much no other company that I hate as much as Microsoft. I have almost a religious aversion to them and I always say I'd be a bum in the street before working for them.
I'm not sure why exactly I hate them so much but I think it's mostly to do with the fact that their whole business philosophy is based on ripping off other people's ideas and making crappy knock-off versions of them. If there weren't companies like Apple out there for Microsoft to steal from, they'd quickly go out of business.
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Anyone who knows me will understand this rating all too well.
My latest experience with bad MSFT software came when we had to update our computers for the new "day light savings scheme". I have two work computers (one Linux and one Windows) and a Mac at home. OS X and Linux just needed a one button click to install the patch; windows required four restarts and it still didn't work.
"Once you go Mac you'll never go back" :)
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*ugh*
Please use _some_ of that money to innovate. Please, just buy some fresh ideas instead of stealing one that are several years old.
No, I get that Microsoft has done a lot for the Greater Seattle area and that it might be a great place to work, for some. However, you can say the same thing about any large corporation.
I'm talking strictly about their products.
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Another vote for Brenna.
My Linux flavor is Fedora, though I like SuSE, too.
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Call me a Fanboy or a sell out.
With the exception of Firefox, you gotta give it up for Office 2007, Windows, Sql Server, and .Net. IE is still a steaming pile.
And I used to be a Java dev... where has my hatred gone?
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I'd give zero stars, were that an option. If they would reimburse for ALL the time they have caused to be wasted all over the world, they'd have been bankrupted ages ago. But due to appropriate dollops of their ill-gotten gains, they get a free pass through the Antitrust legislation, and everybody gets inferior goo on their machines.
Mediocrity would be a plus, Their stuff is pure sh*t, forcefed by curare-tipped marketing and spin-control/FUD that Joe Goebbels would have envied.
Go Slackware, or go Mac, and don't look back!
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Thumbs up for DOS.
Thumbs down for Windows. The damn registry can kiss my ass.
GO UBUNTU!!!!!
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I'm with you Brenna.
Personally, http://www.debian.org/ gets 5 stars.
Too bad my picture is gone, but Microsoft, you were my bitch for a day.
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I'm also with you Brenna
My choice http://www.gentoo.org/ gets my vote of 5 stars
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I was going to give Microsoft 5 stars - but my Windows computer kept crashing. I'd like to expl
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Oh the conspiracy.... I have a serious love/hate relationship with Microsoft...more bordering on hate as they continue to issue crap OSs. You had a firm grip with Windows 2000! It actually worked! Windows ME was the greatest debacle ever and Microsoft should be taken to the stocks and whipped with iron pillars and stoned for it.
Then Windows XP (extra-pathetic) and home edition in particular came out to be cute and please the masses...which automatically meant crap architecture and more hung apps than I can shake a stick at. I have fewer complaints about XP Pro but it's still a crap-ass OS, with all your wimpy service packs!
I will have to say that Microsoft has increased my productivity somewhat with the issuance of Office, although Access and I fight regularly. I give you 2 stars because my life wouldn't be what it is without the necessary evil of Microsoft (I'd really prefer 2.5 stars), but you still piss me off on a daily basis.
Don't worry, Apple didn't fare much better.
Sooooo....what flavour do you like your Linux? Red Hat, Debian or SuSe?
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After all, where would we all be today without them ?
Don't they have pretty much full control on most stuff ?
I must say I sure do like their landscape at the
Corporate Headquarters in Washington.
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Ok, so what have I bought? I think I own the license to the OS on my laptop. They haven't done me any wrong over the years. Everyone else just wants the product to breakdown, but what's the use?
They provide a pretty good OS and there are alternatives. Don't lose the faith. And Gates ran things pretty well. I'd like to meet him, but I don't know what I would say to him. Nice charity?
Yeah. Go PC!
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know a cute software developer that works there;) vista sucks...windows 07 rocks
I could explain my rating, but I won't. :)
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Thought I'd help out... ;)
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gooooo 'softies!!
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