Microsoft, you mean Microshaft

3 Reasons why I want to knock stuff over when I hear the word Microsoft:

1. Licensing of Microsoft products, you take it up the tail pipe every time you buy a Microsoft product. They never give you a brand new product, it is always improvements on the previous versions. It is hard to feel sorry for Microsoft, when they bitch about people using their products without paying for it. Well for one it is easier to installed a cracked copy of Windows then it is to figure out their licensing scheme. Forget about licensing server products without a PHD in Bullshit.

2. Windows is not that great! There is nothing like getting the blue screen of death when you least expect it and usually when you haven't saved in the last 5 minutes. The code is pieced together from other OS's down through the years. What really needs to be done is scrap everything that they have done in the last 15 years and start over. Long live DOS!

3. Updates. Updating Microsoft products is not unlike going to the dentist. You go for the check up and end up with a swollen mouth and drooling over yourself. Have you ever tried to update a driver from Microsoft. I made the mistake once, it was painful. I basically had to reinstall Windows it hosed it so bad. Most updates are to fix problems with previous updates.

The update that pisses me off more then anything is in Windows XP SP2 they limited the amount of out-going connections from your machine to 5. Now if you have ever tried to Bittorrent something 5 out-going connections are not sufficient. This limitation was put in place to stop worms from replicating as fast. However, there is no easy way to change the connections from 5 to higher number.

Bonus Gripe. The assumption that everyone needs to be an administrator. If you work in a corporate environment this is bane of your existence. Everyone wants to install all the software and download the last virus filled email from their friends to the corporate machines, so what do you to stop them. Well you put them in as a regular user. That is all great and fine except Microsoft is setup that you can run existing programs that require read and write access to files in the root directory or in Program Files. To put in lamens terms: Your shit ceases to work!

I don't know how many hours of hacking at the registry and permissions I have done to get some software product to work with Windows.