Actually MSFT's applications are not famous for their bugs, but for their ever erring attempts to anticipate and execute. The software is like a kid that wants to help without being asked. It is as though the programmers set up the default settings to their own style of work and left them there. Then they buried the change functions under arcanely worded, multi-layered menus and complex selection boxes where it takes a person 20 minutes to figure out how to change a software induced mistype and 10 seconds to just retype it.
Yeah, that's exactly right, although some of the auto stuff does work, there's enough that is insanely annoying to make a person want to kill the programmer. Like the helpful Monitor or the multiple places one can configure TCP/IP stuff, it's like voodoo.
But there are two other things that really, really suck about Microsoft. When the sytem breaks, by virus or registry problems it totals the whole disk or partition. And the new device registry thing on XP.
Why do I still feel like I'm given the choice between a 1970s Maverick or a 1970s Volkswagon parked between a rock and a hard place, when all I really want is a working Toyota.
The truth is that Apple, here we go again, really blew it when they fired the experienced interface people. OS X would be insanely good if the interface was just a little better. Good enough to really attract converts I think, even with the CPU problems Apple has. |
