In 2003, a Windows user who simply wanted to install Microsoft Moviemaker ran into the non-functioning Windows hell that plagues – well, nearly all Windows users.
No, an everday rant like this isn't big news, but it's worth a read as a look at what's seriously wrong with the Windows experience. Things like this: "Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up. But that is just the start of the crap..."
(I know, life isn't perfect across the street in Macland, but 99.9% of the time, this sort of software update is about as eventful on a Mac as eating a peach. Linux users, how about you?)
Oh, by the way, who was the guy who couldn't get Windows to work? Name's Bill Gates, or something like that. Not that it matters.
The email, as reported by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
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