Dear Microsoft
In reviewing our relationship over the past years, it occurs to me that I haven’t been falsely accused of being a thief enough lately. In that regard, rather than spending time, money, or energy developing new features or making the features you have work, I would greatly appreciate it if you could spend time making sure that I haven’t ripped you off.
If possible, it would be best if the new version of the anti-ripoff tool had as many false positives as possible. Also, I’d like it if the tool could be as large as possible and updated as frequently as possible. Finally, every time I download an update from you, including critical security updates, I should need to download a new version of the anti-ripoff tool.
My thinking here is that downloading updates from you isn’t difficult and painful enough, and I don’t yet feel enough of a need to get down on my knees and pray that your update process doesn’t foul up again. Also, the updates I have been downloading are just too darn small, and happen too darn fast.
Anyway, I know that you’ll do what’s right and invest the largest amount of money, time, and effort into the item with the smallest possible return, and the greatest possible annoyances for me, your customer.
Regards
Cecil
PS – I finally figured out all of the differences between the 8 different versions of Windows Vista, the 4 different versions of Office, and the 8 different versions of Windows Server 2008. This is very disappointing! You can do better than that, and I expect to see better from you soon! Why not 78 different editions of each OS and Office suite? That would be much better. I’d never figure out those differences unless I hire a consultant!
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@Cecil, if you’re being falsely accused of having a pirated copy of XP, here’s a patch that will fix just that and stop that annoying WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) popups: removeWGA. The alternative is Linux, any one of the gazillion distros.
Spot on. I’m always trying to explain to people they should get WGA check out. You don’t run back to the bakery every day to show them the receip of the bread you once bought.
If you don’t trust the people who BUY, then don’t SELL.
Haha, that’s a good comparison!
Why are you still even bothering to use MicroSoft?
There are free options out there that is just going to take a bit of your time to install, get used to.
I refer to using an open source operating system and then using openOffice for your documents etc?
I running linux at home and Windoze at the office because I am not paying for the updates etc and company policy.
Holla if you interested to know more.
@Anastacia: I don’t, but a lot of people that frequently ask me for help does which means I’m still getting exposed to microsoft problems all the time, especially vista, bleh :(
I’m happy with Gentoo Linux, I can customize it as much as I like and even recode things I’m not happy with.
On a related note – OGA. Office Genuine Advantage. What’s annoying about this one is that if your copy of office doesn’t validate, it installs a whole new toolbar with nothing other than “THIS COPY OF OFFICE IS NOT GENUINE”, and a little tray icon that pops up a bubble every two minutes that says “THIS COPY OF OFFICE IS NOT GENUINE”, as well as dialog boxes screaming “THIS COPY OF OFFICE IS NOT GENUINE” every time you open a new Office application.
It almost makes you not want to use Office – which is sad, considering just how good ‘07 is.
Blocking those annoying popups is a fun way to teach yourself cracking abilities, decompile the module that is calling the popup and change the assembler (which one usually decompiles into hex) code for equal to not equal and the popup will only appear if it’s “legal”.
Haven’t done something like that in ages and I have to agree, Office used to be Microsoft’s flagship product, now they just make it annoying to use.