Microsoft Continues To Frustrate Us All
I try to minimize the number of completely off-topic posts, but here’s one I can’t avoid. It’s almost comical how Microsoft, three decades after its rise to prominence in distributed computing, is still turning out products that frustrate the living hell out of its customers.
I owned a small but growing business for almost 30 years starting in the 1980s, and, until I hired a full-time IT guy to replace me in, I’ll say 1994, I was the IT guy for my company that had, at the time, I’ll guess 40 employees. I knew even then that the Microsoft operating system that was dominant in terms of market share was a complete disaster. It’s sad to walk forward almost 20 years and see the same dynamics still in play.
I agree.
Before I retired, I worked as a computer programmer / analyst for more than 20 years. One of the companies for which I worked closed down the branch for which I worked; the buggy Microsoft COBOL compiler ran costs up so high that that branch was losing too much money. We continually got run-time errors which were hard to eliminate because we couldn’t find the cause. Microsoft would do nothing about it.
Because Microsoft Windows was a continual source of frustration, I migrated to an I-Mac. I was tired of having to fool with and pay for anti-virus software and having Windows continually crash. Instead of continually adding more features, Microsoft should put more effort into making Windows and its other software more reliable.