Back to school, and other things that bug…
mitch @ 10:56 pm on December 1, 2005
Been a long time since I last posted… not sure why really, just haven’t felt like writing lately. I’ve worked out a deal with school and redid some of the payment options, so I’ll be getting back underway with school starting monday. However, one of my classes is all about Windows. Lately my Windows install on my laptop has been driving me nuts. I don’t understand anymore why people like that operating system… Why people willingly put up with the crap that happens with it… you install a couple apps and they’ll over run your machine making it crap slow… whats wrong with that picture? I don’t understand… why would you subject yourself to it? I guess not knowing that it doesn’t have to be that way is one thing, but please for the love, when will it die! Joking, joking… partly atleast 
Windows has its place, its not on my desktop however. I won’t willingly subject myself to that much torture. I do understand why others use it, for the apps mostly, familiarity and hardware support tied for second. The day will come (hopefully soon, but I won’t hold my breath) that Windows won’t be the only common thing on the desktop anymore, the market is big enough from multiple players. When that day comes we’ll see real innovation, after all, what innovation really needs is healthy competition. I guess the question that remains is, Will Windows and Microsoft know how to play a game with the turf being equal? If you’ve been paying attention to the MS vs ODF ordeal, it seems they’re pulling out every last stop they can come up with to prevent the turf from being equal for *all* sides. Their latest is an attempt to “open” their new Office XML format, thats turning out to be not so “open”. They must think people are dumb. The “open” format they’re trying to push, still prevents people from writing GPL’d apps that support the format…. Now how open can an “open” format be that still has restrictions? Silly Microsoft, tricks are for kids.
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