63 reviews for Microsoft
63 reviews in English
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Review from Daniel Z.
7/30/2011
Well, well... look at what we have here. An avid and loyal Apple fan such as myself writing a review on "the other guy". This review is going to be geared toward the gaming, specifically Xbox 360 console, side of Microsoft. I will be the first to admit that dealing with Microsoft Xbox support is quite possibly the most frustrating thing one can do on the phone. When you place a call to customer support, your call gets answered by a third party customer service representative that resides in a country that is not the U.S.A. If you need more than the basic, "Is your TV powered on", then this support probably isn't for you.
That's where I found myself 3 times in as many years. I've owned 3 (now on my 4th) Xbox consoles. Every year, just after my warranty expires, I will start experience signs of video card failure. Each time this happens, I have to call up customer support and go through the routine, get a repair order started and shell out $100 for the repair. The last time it occurred I said enough is enough. I'm sick and tired of pay $100 a year to own an Xbox. I talked with multiple customer service representatives as well as several supervisors. The bottom line I was getting was I needed to shell out another $100 this year for a repair. They failed to see how this console going out every year was an unusual problem. This was the last straw, I gave up with customer support and went straight to the top. I sent a e-mail to Steve Balmer, C.E.O. of Microsoft Corp. I know for a fact that my e-mail was probably never seen by Mr. Balmer himself, but rather his secretaries nannies dog walker. None-the-less a few days later I receive a phone call from a representative from Microsoft Xbox Support. I knew I had the attention of the right person because he had 8:00AM to 5:00PM office hours... now we're talking :)
To make a long stories ending short, I worked with this representative, and we resolved my current problem with a courtesy repair. So, at least for this year, I won't have to shell out $100 to Microsoft. Oh what will next year bring? -
Review from Michael W.
La Verne, CA
12/26/2010
What a crappy company.
So I get a new computer and Microsoft wont load I dont have the key.
So it internally pops up a number.
Call the number and its fast and I get the computer going (and the key part not returning it that same day)
Flash forward a few months. Microsoft will no longer allow me to use any of the built in applications. AFTER I can no longer return it.
Get another help number (to people who dont get things fixed)
Heres hoping Google kicks your ass.Listed in: Gold Medal in Shittiness
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Review from Stef M.
5/11/2011
Am I not supposed to review this because I work here? Well ... too bad. It's a cool place to work. I guess it depends on who your boss is, and which of the 50 bajillion buildings you work in. Some have nice fountains and architecture and natural scenery surrounding them. Some are in busy downtown Bellevue next to the high-end handbag boutiques. Others are a confusing maze of mirror image hallways that you keep getting lost in and totally look like they were built in the 80's. Because they were.
They'll give you a free bus pass, or pay for your bike, and give you a free Connector ride from your neighborhood.
They have a generous charity donation-matching policy, and pay pretty well. The health benefits are going downhill, though, so minus one star. -
Review from Todd L.
Seattle, WA
2/6/2008
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.
Half the reason why we get to geek out on Yelp is BECAUSE of Microsoft. -
Review from Andrew E.
Seattle, WA
3/1/2007
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). -
Review from Kristina A.
San Francisco, CA
3/26/2007
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. -
Review from Ian S.
3/23/2007
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.Listed in: Ian's Big Ego List
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Review from Eric V.
Austin, TX
10/11/2010
C'mon, Windows 7 is awesome. Completely makes up for Vista and the problems it had with drivers that caused freezing, crashing, and rebooting. No more of that now with Windows 7. IE9 is amazing with it's hardware acceleration.
Windows Sever 2008 R2 is one powerful and secure OS for all Enterprise computing needs. Exchange is a killer Enterprise messaging app. Sharepoint is an unbelivable collaboration tool. SQL rocks. Office 10 rules. The Cloud is here and BPOS is kickin. XBOX, nuff said.
Windows Phone 7 is coming and I can't wait.
Most of the bad reviews on here are from several years back. Microsoft has advanced and changed over those years. Two thumbs up to them! Keep it up guys.
*Posted from my Windows 7 laptop using IE9. And it has never crashed, hung, or bluescreened.* -
Review from Aurelio G.
Chicago, IL
1/6/2009
This review is strictly for their second home video game console, the Xbox 360. It tops my list as the best home console ever released. EVAR! I tell you!
From it's online gameplay to it's ability to stream Netflix movies to my big screen TV so I don't have to watch the "Watch It Now" movies on my tiny computer monitor, this system just about does it all. And I have a crapton of over 80 games for it so there's never a dull moment.
Hahahaha, my friend will send me a text message asking me to come out for some beers. No, thanks. I think I'll stay home and play Call of Duty 4. Yes, it's that good. I have no life. -
Review from Sam H.
Redmond, WA
9/8/2006
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? -
Review from Sheena T.
4/16/2010
What the heck! 2 and half stars?!
We're talking about the creators of Windows and the ever so infamous xbox360! I'm hoping female Yelp-ers aren't upset and taking it out by bashing on Microsoft because their men spend more time with their Xbox than them (half-kidding).
But really, this place is amazing. I love the campus and I felt like a kid again when my daddy took me in when he was working. I got a cool sticker with my name printed it on it, and the lobby has games! When my dad showed me where the bathrooms were, I saw the Tablet, and it was FUN to play with. It had multiple finger interface - I'm not that easily amused either, so I think that invention is purely legit.
The company store looks really cool, and can you believe that there are tons and tons of white Toyota Prius shuttles for transportation?
It was just like I went to a field trip.
By the way, I'm a PC.
:)
P.S. Reading the reviews on here really made me disappointed in how some people "hate" Microsoft. Need I remind everyone that "Microsoft Word", "Microsoft Powerpoint", and "Microsoft Excel" are essentials if you own a computer? Not to mention, Apple still needs to run that software on MACs. Come on guys, get off the Haterade! -
Review from Aaron V.
3/26/2007
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. -
Review from Gene D.
8/12/2007 1 Check-in Here
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! -
Review from Kiran C.
Seattle, WA
7/27/2007
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. -
Review from Alisa B.
7/17/2010
Yes there is such a thing as being too nice. The woman who yacked my ear off on the phone today when i needed xbox help annoyed me to no end. I wanted to find her (in whatever country she is in) and wrap her mouth closed with colophane. Gr. Anyways, I just got the red ring of death... again. This is only the second time I'm had the red ring in about 5 years of owning the bloody thing but seriously I swear they solder those thingys to come undone 2 months after your warranty expires. Gr again. I got quoted $120 and about a month back time for shipping, repair and shipping again... yes they wanted to offer me all this free crap for using hteir crappy service but still $120! that's just under half of what they are charging for the new slimmer 250 whatevers of memory big ass hard drive ones now!
Regardless the last time I had to send it in I had to wait 6 weeks to get it back... that is too long in my opinion. Oh well, local guy said he's charge me $50 and would warranty his work for another year or two... and have it done same day.... yeah think i'm gonna stick with the local guy. -
Review from Bryan B.
4/21/2007
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" :) -
Review from Vanessa V.
Los Angeles, CA
11/2/2010
LEMME PLAY MY SEXBOX AND I AM GOOD FOR LIFE
word, you know it g-money. -
Review from Andrew C.
1/22/2008
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.Listed in: Uno
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Review from Luy T.
Los Angeles, CA
1/11/2009
Thank you for making your products buggy and hard to configure, I will forever have work in the IT industry.
p.s. I'm actually digging Vista ultimate 64 bit with media center... -
Review from Lorri E.
2/10/2008
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. -
Review from Christopher S.
Seattle, WA
7/25/2010
XBOX 360 review only!!!
I paid 400 dollars for my 360. I loved it when it worked. It burned out after 3 years. It's the FIRST console I have ever had burn out. I was informed by microsoft tha tmy warranty has expired and it will cost 140 dollars to fix. Lick my balls microsoft. I am going to be moving on to the PS3. Thanks for nothing Bill. -
Review from Sarah B.
Seattle, WA
2/14/2006
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.
http://blog.ineedhits....
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http://blogs.zdnet.com... -
Review from Tim O.
Seattle, WA
4/21/2007
*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.Listed in: Poop on a stick...
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Review from Tony D.
Del Mar, CA
9/22/2010
So sick of their Customer Service!
Recently my hotmail account was hacked into. I don't know how because I had a strong password with numbers and all. (I think someone got into a server because there's so many like me.)
So this person or program spams everyone including myself on yahoo. Horrible for many reasons. I went in and quickly changed my password. Now I have been locked out for months. No matter how many times I reset, type in the special characters, answer my secret question or try to contact Microsoft. It always says "I tried too many times with the wrong password". There are hundreds of others people having the same issue. I have no idea why the media hasn't picked this up?
No help from anyone! Don't even get me started on their OS. I'm switching to Mac and Linux! -
Review from T- K.
Los Angeles, CA
6/10/2008
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. -
Review from Andrew Y.
6/27/2006
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! -
Review from Mike F.
North Haven, CT
5/2/2008
Alrighty, I'm talking about XBOX Live Marketplace, and I'm talking about lame. I'm talking about a 45 minute TV show taking over 3+ hours to download, and charging me over 3 bucks for it. (Who can tell how much you are paying with the stupid point system. (Yeah I know 1 point = 1.25 pennies, its annoying by golly!)
I like the XBox Live Arcade, but how about making a few games that are under 10 bucks.
Other than that, I like MS and make my living because of the them. I even like Vista more than XP. Hence the extra star. But gosh, some things you do are annoying. ***End rant*** -
Review from Ted W.
11/12/2008
I'm editing my original review because it was a little too offensive to actual Microsoft employees (just found out that a friend's wife works for MS)...but I'm not letting MS off the hook in terms of my actual Yelp rating.
The biggest mistake I've ever made in my entire life was upgrading from Office 2003 to Office 2007.
Outlook redefines what slow means, and Excel doesn't even sort correctly in my Pivot Tables.
Can I file a lawsuit against them for wasting so much of my time? -
Review from Misi P.
Chicago, IL
4/26/2006
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? -
Review from Derek B.
Seattle, WA
3/1/2007
Another vote for Brenna.
My Linux flavor is Fedora, though I like SuSE, too. -
Review from Ross B.
Seattle, WA
10/18/2006
I'm also with you Brenna
My choice http://www.gentoo.org/ gets my vote of 5 stars -
Review from Dr G.
Seattle, WA
4/2/2007
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! -
Review from Abe N.
Seattle, WA
6/5/2008
I hate you Vista.
Yes, I am sure. -
Review from Wes S.
11/6/2007
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. -
Review from Bob G.
Bothell, WA
2/1/2008
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. -
Review from Gavin N.
3/6/2008
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.
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Review from Seeso A.
Hawthorne, CA
7/4/2008
Am i the only person who thinks that this system is just getting worse and worse? Every time they come out with something new, they reduce the user friendly part of the program. The reliability and quality suffer with every new offering.
Bill Gates should be embarrass to have his name associated with this inferior product. Windows Vista doesn't deserve any stars but this rating system won't allow it... -
Review from RowerRob C.
Seattle, WA
3/27/2007
Thumbs up for DOS.
Thumbs down for Windows. The damn registry can kiss my ass.
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Review from Jean-Sébastien G.
Seattle, WA
5/14/2009
This big company is hard to understand.
Most people are unsatisfied because the products don't do exactly what they expect. It's really hard to satisfy millions of people.
It's hard to talk to Microsoft people but if you have the right resources, it's actually easy. -
Review from marki v.
Seattle, WA
12/28/2007
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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