So, Microsoft’s been carpet bombing your favorite channels with the Mojave Experiment commercials purporting to show how the general populace has been duped by a handful of cranky geeks (and, uh, the general media but they don’t know what they’re talking about either).
I find it funny that the fake Windows was named after an arid desert with hostile climates…and they’re using a Polynesian theme song. I guess Microsoft is consistent with their confusion and lack of insight into just about anything they create nowadays.
Back to our news. I’d been curious (Microsoft generally pisses me off…love/hate relationship…but I have to know) as to what they were showing in Vista. I know people who upgraded for one reason or another (64-bit OS, just wanted something modern, etc.). Were they happy with it? Yes and no. I know a gamer who did and instead of getting some sort of super OS with DirectX 10 (which is the other reason outside of the 64-bit OS/increased RAM support that he upgraded). He had a joy of a time trying to deal with the driver incompatibilities and hoping the games he was trying to play would work (forget about backward compatibility as it’s hit or miss).
My experience? I had even more fun…I got to play with Vista’s big brother, Windows Server 2008. What a sack of shit. Of course, the UAC had to go because whoever invented that load of crap should’ve been locked in a house running Server 2k8. Go to open the bathroom door, “You are about to open the bathroom door, are you sure you are trying to do this?” What the fuck? Are you telling me it’s THAT hard to determine if I clicked with my mouse or if a malicious program sent a click command at position 10, 20? Fuck sake, then, you’re building a new fucking OS, make the API calls made directly (rather than from drivers) fucking go through the UAC check…not ME, the human clicking the hardware device passing the signal through the USB cable to your sorry bus.
I gotta say, I think the QA department that had to deal with this fubar feature deserver medals of honor.
On a whim, I visited the Mojave experience site. I love it…they give you a small/short video on the demo they presented to these focus group people…god I hope they presented more than that because if that’s all they presented you’ve got to wonder if Microsoft even realize how stupid they look? The demo talked about the backup and shadow copy functions of the OS….Oooo…so impressive. The fuck? Is it me or is no one noticing that you had to SEARCH for the fucking backup tool. And, for the average joe…they could give a shit. Oh, and I noticed the demos were done on laptops. Uh, just how “quick and easy” would the backup be for people who, in day of pennies per GB HDs (I just bought a 1TB drive for $120, jeez), have a 250GB hard disk be that simple?
Anyhoo, I think Microsoft was going down the right path when they did their little mock commercials in the “I’m a PC” series. It was down their alley (straight-laced, not funny) but it worked and didn’t make them look stupid…it made them look like they are…the market leader (not that people have that much of a choice). Maybe instead of fighting Apple, they should just learn a little bit. After all, Apple’s software isn’t that much better than Microsoft’s in terms of stability and functionality (they just design it better but good luck when things don’t go according to plan…unless you’re a UNIX-head).
With that, I leave Microsoft to CONTINUE to suck. They already can’t suck enough…just had to add to the pile.
Suckers…