Damn You, Bill Gates!!!

I think we can agree with very little argument that Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates, is one smart dude. In fact, I think it's safe to say that not only is Bill one smart dude, but he's a really nice, smart dude who changed personal computing forever, made a fortune from it, yet had the good heart to give a lot back though his charitable works. Bill is the kind of guy that I'd like to have over for supper some evening, maybe a BBQ, and listen to his take on the future of home electronics and maybe have a few laughs about the good ole days when the Commodore 64 ruled homes everywhere and kids like me simply didn't see a need for a better machine.

But somewhere along the way, I'd have a few too many drinks and start talking about the good ole days of Windows XP, maybe even go back in history to Windows 98. Bill would rightly tell me we've moved beyond those ancient operating systems and I drunkenly would beg for his charity in putting Windows Vista out of it's misery. After all, if I wanted my Windows to crash unexpectedly, lag my computer to death, be completely incompatible with software and be incompable of netwkorking with any degree of ease...hell, I'd go back to Windows 95. At least in 1995, I had a blue screen of death to worry about...not pretty looking Vista screens that give me faint hope that something might be working. I've never had a version of Windows that looked so good, yet that is so frustrating to work with. Granted, I'm no IT expert and don't claim to be, but with previous versions, I just bashed the hell out of it until I got it working the way I needed it to. Vista, on the other hand, just seems to want to bash the hell out of me until I accept that sooner or later, it's going to ruin my computer and all of the files that are important to me.

Mr. Gates, I respect you immensely, but please tell me that better days are coming...that the three times I had to boot up my computer in the last two hours because of one, my network not working; two, my mouse not working; and three, new Windows Update...tell me that this will all be worth it. Because right now, the old fashioned pen on my desk is looking awfully good.