Windows

No, not the Microsoft Watch website.

This Microsoft Watch.

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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Man gets Windows Vista to work with printer

Bwah-ha-ha! It's a news story! It's not The Onion, or some other parody site; it's a Seattle Post Intelligencer blog, and the story is real.

There's a photo as evidence that Vista actually will print, complete with caption: "Charles Walling prints from his Windows Vista PC."

You can't make this stuff up. : )

Holy bejesus. I thought my Anything but Speechless: 100 Things People Are Really Saying About Windows Vista was a pretty thorough record of Vista's failure. This Slashdot page goes me one better. It's got plenty of info and links, which I've got too, but also puts it all into a chronological ordering. Like watching train wreck footage, frame by painful frame.

Vista Failure Log

I doff my cap to my better. Well done, sir(s)!

"Why Vista? Good Question." That's the premise of an eWEEK survey to enterprises. And the answer is... buried in a horrible "slideshow" format forcing would-be readers to wade through flickering screen after screen, for what turns out to be barely a large paragraph's worth of info.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Vista/Why-Vista-Good-Question/

For you, fair readers, I bring the slides' text in its entirety. Here it is:
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My thanks to the mad rush of good people who've stopped by to read Anything but Speechless: 100 Things People Are Really Saying About Windows Vista. 63,000+ reads, 1400+ Diggs, 500+ comments on the related Digg page; that's a modest but nice bit of attention. Friendly visitors from Reddit added to the fun.
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