Friday, May 2, 2008

Windows Busta

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People react to Windows Vista in one of two ways. Either they don't know it exists because their company's IT department smartly refuses the upgrade, or they hate it because it's such a Busta.

In fact, they should have just called Microsoft Busta.




Vista's codename during its top-secret development was "Longhorn," which is kind of ironic considering its positively flacid public release in January. Leading up to the release Microsoft kept details tightly under wraps, perhaps to create the illusion someone was interested in them. Microsoft has entire cubicle farms dedicated to populating the internet with fake forums and blogs speculating about its new products and how awesome they are, not unlike KSU President Lester Lefton's editing of his own Wikipedia page to include a section called "popular." What a douchebag.

One of the most annoying things about Windows XP is all the messages that pop up on your screen to tell you ways Microsoft wants to improve your user experience. Clearly a glutton for irony, Microsoft has increased the number of pop-ups and confusing error messages tenfold in Vista. Some, like the one above, are so insulting you have to laugh to keep from crying.

Anyway, Vista sucks.

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