I’m a Mac… and why MS is unbalanced
Posted on 19. Aug, 2009 by zevmo in Apple, Technology
I have to tell you, this is my favorite “I’m a Mac..” commercial.
It reminds me of my last trip to Florida when I needed to get some old RAM for a 5 year old laptop. They no longer carried it in the big-box stores, so we ended up going to a local “Computer Repair Shop”. When we walked in, there were probably 150 computers on either side of the store, with a path in the middle. This was a bit overwhelming. I purchased the overpriced RAM and looked at the various work orders taped on the CPU’s. “dll, blue screen, crash, virus…” I walked out saying, why does the average consumer put up with this crap? Mac is more expensive, fine- we can debate that until we are blue in the face, but this nonsense is ridiculous. No matter what people say about Windows 7, the Shared DLL’s and Registry both still exist. The way MS deals with device drivers, and the crashes they cause, is still there. Frankly, this is putting fancy wallpaper on a turd and calling it an improvement.
Microsoft, grow up and go UNIX! Or at the very least, segment the dlls to the program’s installation folder (no more system32, registry, and environment variables), and allow a drag-and-drop installation proceedure that doesn’t require rebooting the machine 15 times! C’mon, this is your newest, overpriced, under-delivered bloatware? You would think that Vista was a lesson. Think Different!
