OneChele writes an open letter to Microsoft:
Dear Microsoft,
I feel betrayed. I have defended you and stayed with you when time after time you have done me wrong. I stayed when people implored me to leave. I have downloaded upgrade after upgrade of Windows. I left WordPerfect and QuattroPro to embrace MS Office when you guaranteed me no drama. The price of this relationship escalates exponentially, I'm not sure I can afford to be with you anymore.
Speaking of expensive, I flirted with Apple to experience a different way of life but quickly realized that adding anything beyond the basics is too high a price. I had a brief affair with Netscape when your browser demanded update after incessant update. But Netscape couldn't give me what I needed. Just when I thought you and I could co-exist peaceably, you suckered me into Vista. L
There's no easy way to say this… Vista sucks. The amount of memory needed to operate this with any efficiency literally drains me. The constant permission asking and hidden programs running and upgrade/solution/update nonsense are too exhausting. And still I persevered. Then you introduced Office 2007 and rocked my world… not in a good way. All the easy shortcuts and simplistic commands that worked so well in the past have been replaced with slick-looking menus that as might as well be in Greek. What happened to ease of use? Why did it take me DAYS to configure line-spacing in Word? What is all the goobledy-gook in the Table Menu in Excel? Why does Outlook freeze for no reason?
Okay, I learned to work with it. After all, we've been together for so long that I couldn't even imagine being with anybody else. And then you forced me to upgrade to a new Internet Explorer. This was the last straw. My once quick and agile computer slowed to a crawl. Pages that opened in seconds now required me to go get a cup of coffee and then come back. Don't try and blame it on the size of my hard drive, speed or memory. It's not me… it's you!
A few months ago, a dear friend introduced me to Google Chrome. And even though you tried to make it hard for me to leave by declaring that nothing would work as well as you and things would never look the same, I defied you and left anyway. I have no frozen pages, my images load with the greatest of ease. Today, my new love Chrome gifted me with an awesome upgrade that already warms my heart.
Just you wait, Microsoft. If Google hooks up Gmail with more bells and whistles, I'm dropping Outlook. I've already started looking around for an Office Suite replacement and I swear for God my next laptop is going to be XP. You can keep your Vista. Let Google (or anyone else) come out with an operating system that doesn't require an update every two days… I'm out!
You have abused my trust for the last time; I'm going to have to go Lauryn Hill on you: I used to love him, now I don't. Yes, it's the break up, Microsoft. Shocking after all my years of loyalty and fealty but it's time. When you miss me I'm gone,
OneChele
P.S. Love to Bill, I'm still down with him if he and Melinda want to fund a black blogger… I'm just saying.
Can you tell I'm having computer drama? How many of you have left Internet Explorer behind?
15 comments:
Don't get be me started on Microsoft. I finally just broke down and switched to Apple. Vista was the last straw.
The minute somes comes up with a decent Office/Outlook alternative, I'm out.
I left Explorer ages ago for Mozilla Firefox. It runs much better, but it's been clowning here lately so before I go all Serena on it, I'm going to check out Google Chrome. Thanks for the recommendation.
I switched to Chrome, went back to WordPerfect and use gmail exclusively. I spent a week counting and had no less than 16 errors with Explorer and 10 "no solution" shutdowns from Word. I'm going back to XP as well, Vista is a B!
Co-sign all up and through.
I haven't used IE on my personal laptop in forever. Ever since I discovered Firefox in 2005, I haven't looked back.
If Apple wasn't so EFFIN expensive, I would've had one, but I needed a new laptop post haste and didn't have time to save for a Mac.
Google is the business, period point blank, and PLEASE let them come out with an OS because I will be all over it, yes I will. Gmail is my life and Chrome makes me so happy.
Microsoft is gonna keep being lazy and lame and be taken out by competition that seems small right now. Just you wait, Microsoft, JUST.YOU.WAIT
LOL with you shouting out to Melinda and Bill. I went Apple and Safari years ago. Lookin at new PC netbook for my daughter, guess I oughta go XP/Chrome?
*whispers* Come to Apple... Apple!
I know it seems like a lot to come off of at once, but look at the benefits: just about everything you need is already included and they last longer than their service protection (3yrs). Quit Microsoft for good and join the dark side! :)
Girl, Leave Microsoft and come to the dark side with the rest of us. I switched to an iMac at the beginning of the year and it's been the best computer decision I've ever made. No more weird slow-downs, shut-downs and other clownery. And the best part... no viruses!
Seriously, LOL! Onechele hooked me up to Chrome and now I don't have to continously walk away from the computer while it loads a page. Thanks for sharing with BougieSis. Let me know if you find that MS Office replacement!
Wow, between this and the tweets and the emails - no one is loving Microsoft. It's like we're all dying to get an divorce but have decided it's cheaper to keep her. If this is a representative sampling, Microsoft needs to get on it's game... with the swiftness.
I also switched last year and haven't looked back. The only computer problems I have no are at work, on a PC! Microsoft has proven that they don't give a dayum about keeping customers. Their so called new and improved OS systems, non-existent customer support and error messages. If I saw one more blue screen of death or error message I was going to hurt someone. The grass is greener on the other side.
I left IE for FireFox a few years ago. I've heard of Chrome. What particulars do you like about it?
It loads faster, it updates less frequently and it's far more intuitive. In a nutshell - less drama. I love it.
And let the church say "Amen!" I'm with you sister girl. I say all the time "Bill and Melinda are da bomb when it comes to philanthropy but Microsoft sucks!" There I said it. Also, if you try to not divorce but just "legally separate" from Internet Explorer for a while and leave it on your computer, it interferes with the Firefox browser. And boy don't they get you when you try to delete Internet Explorer from your computer? You receive warning after warning that if you delete it this program and that program "may not function properly." Well, I took my chances and deleted Internet Explorer from my computer. BTW, I love Google Chrome to. My surfing just zips along now.
Great article!!!!
Are you using DSL? if so, which service are you using?
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