Microsoft

Washington — At least two federal government agencies are refusing to upgrade their computers with Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Vista operating system, citing concern over costs and compatibility issues.

In a Jan. 19 memo to staff, Dan Mintz, the Transportation Department’s chief information officer, imposed an “indefinite moratorium” on upgrading desktop and laptop computers with the new operating system, Office 2007 and Internet Explorer 7.

Mintz wrote that there is “no compelling technical or business case” to upgrade to the new products and specific reasons not to upgrade.

Think I’m crazy for saying there’s no reason to go to Vista right now? At least a small village’s worth of friends and family have asked me if I’m upgrading to Vista, when I’m upgrading to Vista, whether they should get Vista on their new computer, and why the hell am I not all excited about Vista. I’ve told each and every one of them that I’ll upgrade to Vista someday, but not in 2007. XP works just fine for me, thank you. I don’t have the time or the patience to spend half my working hours for the next six months installing service patches and emergency updates. I’d never buy the first year of a new model of car and I’ll not upgrade my OS the same year it’s released. My operating system is probably the only thing in my life that I choose not to have on the bleeding edge. Sometimes it’s just not worth it to be an early adopter.

Reason #4,213 Why People Get Frustrated with Microsoft:

Here’s what you want to do:

• You want your Windows 2000 web server to always execute files with a *.cgi extension.
• You want your Windows 2000 web server to parse the ASP code that you’ve embedded in files that end in *.htm, *.shtml, *.css.
• You want your Windows 2000 web server to know that it needs to parse these file types for all the domains on the machine and you don’t want to modify the settings for each domain.

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It appears that all Microsoft users are doomed. I’ve seen this coming for some time now and I’m not surprised in the least. I’m glad I’ve been learning Palm OS programming on the side. I hate that damn one-button Mac mouse, though. I’ll never get comfortable with it. Let’s just allow MS to do whatever they want, ok? Free enterprise and all that rah-rah …

Sometimes I think they are just trying to confuse people. Could they have possibly made the Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3 Download instructions any more confusing?
Actually it’s only step 4 that bugs me.

I hope people who read my resume don’t think of this when they see that I’ve done a tremendous amount of work implementing bar codes, scanners, and keyless data entry systems.

I am seriously getting sick of Microsoft jerking me around about my browser. I guess I’m the only farking fool in the world who upgraded to IE5.5 a few months ago. So now when they release a patch I get nothin’. What am I supposed to do, Microsoft?! I guess if you have the latest release you’re just screwed, eh? It also bugs me that the Windows Update page is also useless to me.

I wonder if my dad is listening to our quirky older brother talking about weblogs on BUR …