Posts tagged Windows

Racing at the bottom

  • Dave: there's a lot of competition in this category, but the Windows feature that just might piss me off the most is automatic restarts after automatic updates, even if I continually say NO
  • me: lol. "competition in this category"
  • me: These features are really turning up the suckitude heat Bob, this is getting fierce.

The Matrix Runs on Windows - CollegeHumor video

“Our free trial of kung fu has expired!”

A program on my friend Nick’s PC has “corrupted” Internet Explorer 8’s default search provider. Perhaps it was a virus. Or perhaps Nick simply chose to use Google for search (and Chrome as his default browser), and Microsoft has its panties in a whole new bunch over yet more superior browser competition.

A program on my friend Nick’s PC has “corrupted” Internet Explorer 8’s default search provider. Perhaps it was a virus.

Or perhaps Nick simply chose to use Google for search (and Chrome as his default browser), and Microsoft has its panties in a whole new bunch over yet more superior browser competition.

TNT is really sorry that this clip requires Microsoft Windows to play. I believe you, TNT. I believe you. That said, I’m sure the legions of file sharers couldn’t care less.

TNT is really sorry that this clip requires Microsoft Windows to play.

I believe you, TNT. I believe you. That said, I’m sure the legions of file sharers couldn’t care less.

I think it’s hard to overstate the fact that, with the explosion of the Internet as a universal communication medium, hundreds of millions of PCs have been purchased around the world by people who don’t care about computers or software at all.

Daring Fireball: Microsoft’s Competition for Windows 7

Exactly. Gruber nails this with a more succinct sentence in the preceding paragraph, too:

Perhaps Windows 7’s competition isn’t so much XP as it is apathy.

Most Windows users just don’t care. This is the bed Microsoft made for itself by focusing on nothing but market share for so long, and it may very well have to continue laying in it with Windows 7.

When we tell them that the new OS is faster and better, only to have the upgrade break a piece of software that we don’t care about but they really do, we burn our likelihood that they’ll ever willingly upgrade again. Every time we tell them that they can now easily edit video or make DVDs, only to have them abandon their first effort in frustration and never attempt it again because our software sucks, we drive them closer to indifference or resentment toward future technology.

The upgrade market for average PC owners is dead. We killed it.

Marco.org: Why hasn’t Vista sold well?