Bot-Skeptical: Windows 7
Thus we see the limitations of bots such as the one used by Amazon dot com to coax passers-by into adding more useless crap to their virtual shopping carts. Does anyone believe that Windows 7 Professional Upgrade, Windows 7 Ultimate Upgrade, and Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade are "frequently bought together" as this artificially-intelligent interface proclaims?
I have my doubts, but then again, one should not underestimate the power of confusion. If anyone is plunking down the $539.97 to make that purchase, please do stop. You need, at most, only one of these Windows 7 upgrades to escape the miasma of Windows Vista.
If Windows 7 fails to live up to the better-than-Vista hype, um ... we'll all buy Macs? We'll all switch over to google's Chrome vaporware or some other Linux thingy? Of course. Of course we will.
4 rejoinder(s):
Ok, what is it that so many hate about Vista? I know it's been an outlaw since day 1, is it simply because it is MS?
I have it. I actually love it. At first it was annoying that my old pgms were not compatible but I have had no problems with it other than that. Maybe ignorance is bliss...
I won't be upgrading.
DC, no, I am not reflexively anti-MS. I think that point of view is retarded -- Apple and Linux fan-boys can suck it. I practically worship Microsoft Excel.
Vista: accounts vary, but I hate it because (a) the parental controls are a complete pain in the ass, and don't allow the degrees of control I would expect from such a thingy --- frankly, in fairness, I doubt Windows 7 is any better with it; (b) its implementation of user security is utter shit, e.g., we have two flavors, "administrator" and "regular user who can't do a damn thing," and I want something inbetween; and worst of all, (c) it introduced a maddening mouse tracking problem -- the mouse is not where it looks like it is on the screen, so you're always clicking several pixels away from where you think you're clicking -- that no intervention would resolve through many thousands of hours of troubleshooting, trial-and-error, googling, downloading, and hair-pulling. Granted, we have Vista on 2 PCs, and this mouse crap has only affected one of them.
Also, I hate all the goddamn confirmation prompts -- click on, say, add/remove programs. You're prompted as though you don't realize you just fucking clicked on add/remove programs, as though you might want to re-think such a risky maneuver. NO! I don't want to re-think it! I clicked the goddamn thing! Bring it the fuck up!
I get mad thinking about it.
Vista does have a lot of good stuff in it. I don't deny it. But just when I start to almost kinda get used to it and warm up to it, one or more of the above pushes back.
The PC I'm on right now is Windows XP. ;-)
DC ... to clarify: the reflexively anti-MS view is retarded, not anything you said.
;-)
No worries, Dale. My ego is far too great for me to ever think you were calling ME retarded. Charming naivete, poor attempts at humor... absolutely, but never retarded. (big grin)
I totally hate that pop-up thingie too! I know there is a way to turn it off, I saw it once, when looking for something else, but have never bee able to find it since.... grrrrr
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