Wednesday April 30, 2003 at 5:40 PM
Windows is junk
Appearing in What Not
Windows is junk. I know it’s one of the pillars of the modern economy. I don’t care. It’s junk. Last night I had to watch my wife try to navigate the ridiculous labyrinth of click targets, disappearing menus, and incomprehensible options collectively known as Powerpoint. To make matters worse, she had to try and control that eight headed beast with a Dell laptop. Fortunately the laptop had a trackpad instead of one of those ridiculous nipple things but still, the combination of a hyperactive, touch-sensitive pad and a piece of software that is dependent on 4 pixel click points makes for a maddening senseless experience.
The amount of time and energy wasted by the world’s population as they try to use this stuff is incomprehensible. My wife’s not a computer expert. She’s an attorney and I shudder to think how much it cost some client to have her sit there and suffer through a piece of junk software.
Yes, I know that Microsoft has a monopoly hold on the computer industry and yes I know that Apple’s market share is little more than a rounding error. Still, quantity does not equal quality. Microsoft’s software is like McDonald’s hamburgers: cheap, poorly made, and bad for you.
