March 10, 2002
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Sleeping with the Enemy
So from my previous postings, many have been able to figure out that I'm deciding to decline the Microsoft offer. Although the main reasons are personal a somewhat related topic I'm going to write about is in regards to MS. I don't hate it, but sometimes, I think what is happening is just wrong.
Microsoft is a monopoly.
No matter how you look at it, what they are doing is just not right. They have forced the whole world into a situation that has our hands tied. We would all get fukked if they decided to make rash decisions.
If they started charging for Hotmail, I'd be forced to pay.
They have brainwashed me into thinking the Windows operating system is the most efficient one to use, teased on my emotions by making me fall in love with my Zhang Ziyi wallpaper, given me the illusion that I can customize my folders and provided me with false hope by flawlessly connecting onto the net and leading me to dirty porn sites. Those bastards. I log on everyday to check my MSN Hotmail, bug my MSN Messenger Buddies, check what I have to do for the day using my MS Outlook and listen to my Chinese MP3's from my Windows Media Player.
Microsoft has successfully convinced the work world that MS Office is the standard work tool wasting a line on my already too cramped resume.
"Computer proficiency
in use of
MS Office suite
and all Windows
operating systems."
Don't know how to use MS Word? Good luck finding a job buddy! What? Don't understand how to use mail merge? Never recorded a macro before? I thought you said you knew how to use MS Word! Shame on you! And if you use other programs? Well, have fun receiving a document, import features are not 100% accurate!
And can someone please kill Clippy the Microsoft Office Assistant? Okay so they left him out of XP.
Can you believe this was found on the MS site?
Microsoft has crushed Netscape, and I'm sure through not playing fairly. It doesn't take a genious to figure out why Netscape connects to the net much slower than MS does on a Windows operating system. It has forced companies to create programs adaptable to their programming. They provide product support because their product is flawed, forcing you to download updates, patches, fixes and waste valuable online time, not to mention time spent on other things if you are actually someone in IT who has to deal with someone on the other end of the phone who barely understands what an OS is. Driver updates, uneraseable DLL files and an unstable registry that fucks up your computer if you fuck with it. It's a company built on its marketing success, not on the reliability of it's product. Damn blue screen...
They have forced computer salesmen and women to understand how MS works. To pre-install the OS on computers because the average person has been brainwashed into using and accepting MS as the status-quo. They don't know how gimongously FAT Microsoft is eating over 200 MB of hard drive space with drivers and more drivers, dummy files, updates, patches. Printer installation problem? No problem, just go into Control Panel, click on Printers...
User-friendly? Not to people who don't understand how to use you! Reset mother-fucker reset!
You have the balls to test MS??? Well, if you are anywhere close, they will throw a couple million and some stock options your way and you will collapse. WWF's Million Dollar Man was right when he said "Everyone has their price."
Other operating systems?
How many of you readers know how to use Linux? Unix?
Know what OS/2 is?
I sure don't.
It has coerced magazines and newspapers to put Bill's ugly face and disproportionate body on covers around the world.
Get some new glasses man! Get a haircut! Eat some Wheaties! (Thank God he's not on the box of those!)
They have assimilated computer culture forcing you to assimilate. Resistance is futile. Why are you buying that non-MS compatible product?
Sun slams Microsoft with suit over Java - March 11, 2002
States enlist Palm, Gateway against MS - March 4, 2002
AOL's Netscape sues Microsoft - January 22, 2002
U.S. v. Microsoft - A Month-By-Month Wired News Collection
A Why I Hate Microsoft Page
A Reason to Hate Them for the Visually Impaired
Comments (12)
Haha... wow you must have quite a bit of time on your hands to go around putting all these links and pictures in! I love the Linux penguin... he's so cute!
Yeah, I totally see where you're coming from about not working for MS... I would say "why don't you work for them and try change what you don't like" but I know that's practically impossible in such a huge corporation like MS. Oh well, it's good that you stuck by what you believe in though! 
well, actually, the main reason for me not working has little to do with the aforementioned, i guess i got carried away!
Actually I think a big part of Netscape's demise was its acquisition by AOL.
AOL, like Microsoft, is heavy on marketing but soft on product development. Whereas before, Netscape's competitive edge was that it was actually a superior product, after AOL tookover, they were trying to compete with MS at the marketing game and there's no way they can win that. AOL's game is those frickin CD's you get in the mail all the time. You can't touch Microsoft with that shyte.
BTW, Bill Gates is reading this right now man.
He's gonna make you toss his salad for writing this...
wow.
MS if you look carefully has no problems with its applications, but really more so with the OS. Since the code is proprietory, and no one can see it, us coders are blindly stabbing at it in hopes that we can write compatible drivers.
IF they split MS in to the OS division, and applications, I can't see why things can't get better.
why do you think they say it will fall apart then if the company is split up?
OMG...that comment you left on hershey_hugs's page about people hooking up in Spring time!?!? That must be sooo true for me!!! I've always hooked up in either March or April...hahaha...
One half of it will fall apart... but the other half may just survive. I think the OS division is just being held together by the apps division.
i'm not a big fan of microsoft and am starting to see the good things about Macs... However, if it were not for Microsoft most people would not be on computers - since they made it easy with Windows. by the way, my friend David just arrived at Fudan... he's doing a masters in international business...
haha, great. ok well soon to be running on the new i-mac *grins* . If you really want a change, try learning unix. If you reallly want to get away from MS. Get a MAC..! .. lol anyways. You just wait, the whole world will soon be converted into mac users! .. im sure hershey hugs agrees with me! lol..
But after saying all of this. Bill Gates is a fucking genious! .. you're damn right microsoft is a monopoly. I mean really, thats smart thinking.
And after saying this, I'm sure you're also aware that Bill is being forced to spilt his assets, thus not earning heaps of DOSH. I say poor thing. I mean how PISSED OFF would you be?! ..
lol anyways, I came here to say thanks for strenght, and got very carried away! .. i wasn't aware youve been reading my blog! .. but now I do, ill check back more often!
-c
amen to that.. imagine why microsoft is being sued to hell... oh yea any chance i could get a copy of that zhang ziyi wallpaper? my friend loves her.. i'm sure a half naked pic will corrupt the innocent side of him... and that's indeed my definite goal.. >=]
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