Once again Microsoft has provided me a reason to swear off its products.
Installed on my Lenovo computer were to typical MS Office products. And they did work, at one time. But in typical Microsoft fashion, they quickly became unusable with a 'Click-to-run' error, which is one of Microsoft's menagerie of cloud products. Doing the usual search of Microsoft errors, a chore Microsoft users are all too familiar with, I found plenty of other users in the same boat.
No, I won't be searching more on the topic or trying to fix it myself, as I have had to do with so many of its products. No, this provides me with just another excuse why I should not use their products. They are so bound and determined to tie the public to their company, like indentured servants, they will use any means possible, even if its irks their users. There is a kind of peace in it. Once you shed their shackles, as I did a few years back, you never want to go back. Sure I'll use a product readily handy for a few minutes or hours(if that's possible for a MS product), but will not chase down their errors, whether they are there on purpose or not. Thank heavens there are plenty of other products out there not so determined to capture you at any cost (to you).
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Saturday, March 24, 2012
What news?
Sad, the state of news today. Entertainment trumps anything else. Here where I live most of the lead stories of the evening news are sports stories. Who's been traded. What they tweeted. I'm left to go to the BBC news for real US news stories.
One of the worst offenders is Yahoo. They have the most non-news of any site I frequent. Recently they had a link to a story of a man that had two hearts fail. Two hearts you say? That's what they story's headline read, yet in the story the admitted freely that they purposely mistyped the lead, and in fact the man had a pace maker and a heart. They'll use any headline to attract clicks. Yahoo will also use old recycled news from decades ago, like how credit card numbers are verified. And of course they churn out all the latest non-news of Hollywood, like who has changed their hair color or what dress they wore out the night before.
It's becoming a chore to sift through all this driftwood they call news to find something worth reading.
What sites irk you?
One of the worst offenders is Yahoo. They have the most non-news of any site I frequent. Recently they had a link to a story of a man that had two hearts fail. Two hearts you say? That's what they story's headline read, yet in the story the admitted freely that they purposely mistyped the lead, and in fact the man had a pace maker and a heart. They'll use any headline to attract clicks. Yahoo will also use old recycled news from decades ago, like how credit card numbers are verified. And of course they churn out all the latest non-news of Hollywood, like who has changed their hair color or what dress they wore out the night before.
It's becoming a chore to sift through all this driftwood they call news to find something worth reading.
What sites irk you?
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