I Hate Microsoft

By Daniel Miessler on July 14th, 2007: Tagged as Microsoft | Operating Systems | Vista

Well my Vista box is already hung. I made the mistake of closing an explorer Window when it wasn’t responding. This crashed your box in Windows 95. It crashed your box in 98. It crashed your box in ME. It crashed your box in 2000. It crashed your box in XP. It even crashes your box in Server 2003.

So now, in the new and redesigned flagship Vista operating system? It crashes your box. My machine is completely unresponsive (I don’t even have a taskbar or start menu). I’ve installed only one program — Office 2007 Enterprise. I’d blame it on VMware if this wasn’t the same exact issue that I’ve seen in every version of Windows I’ve used.

Keep in mind here — my OS is unresponsive because I clicked on a button that they offered to me as an option. They presented me with an interface which, if used, would hamstring my machine.

Nice job on Windows 95 version 7 here, guys. You make me sad.:

  • http://www.jeremygaddis.com/ Jeremy L. Gaddis

    After reading your “Staying Sharp with Microsoft” post, I wondered how long this would take. =)

  • http://www.jeremygaddis.com/ Jeremy L. Gaddis

    After reading your “Staying Sharp with Microsoft” post, I wondered how long this would take. =)

  • http://www.makeshiftmind.com/ ncloud

    I was running a retail copy of Vista Ultimate for about a month or so, but Windows Update kept breaking it. After a normal round of updates, my system would completely lock up about thirty seconds after it booted. I tried using system restore to rollback the changes, which worked the first time, but when it happened again I never could get the box working correctly. I switched back to XP Pro, where I will probably stay until there is a Vista SP2 that fixes the festering pile of horse shit.

  • http://www.makeshiftmind.com ncloud

    I was running a retail copy of Vista Ultimate for about a month or so, but Windows Update kept breaking it. After a normal round of updates, my system would completely lock up about thirty seconds after it booted. I tried using system restore to rollback the changes, which worked the first time, but when it happened again I never could get the box working correctly. I switched back to XP Pro, where I will probably stay until there is a Vista SP2 that fixes the festering pile of horse shit.

  • http://dmiessler.com/ Daniel Miessler

    I think you should skip ahead and move to OS X or Ubuntu. :)

  • http://dmiessler.com Daniel Miessler

    I think you should skip ahead and move to OS X or Ubuntu. :)

  • http://robbycolvin.info/ Robby

    I feel the same way as you, Daniel. I have not used Windows for over a year now and I feel great! I like Linux (Ubuntu right now) but I would also like to use a Mac as well–just a lot of money.

    I just need to find a job like yours where I can get one for free! :)

  • http://robbycolvin.info Robby

    I feel the same way as you, Daniel. I have not used Windows for over a year now and I feel great! I like Linux (Ubuntu right now) but I would also like to use a Mac as well–just a lot of money.

    I just need to find a job like yours where I can get one for free! :)

  • http://www.makeshiftmind.com/ ncloud

    I have used Ubuntu, and really like it — and OSX is pretty sweet too. But alas, I have a lot of money invested in Windows software. I guess I could run a virtual machine with Windows XP on it, but I’m doing a lot of Windows dev. work right now so I went ahead and put XP back on my box.

  • http://www.makeshiftmind.com ncloud

    I have used Ubuntu, and really like it — and OSX is pretty sweet too. But alas, I have a lot of money invested in Windows software. I guess I could run a virtual machine with Windows XP on it, but I’m doing a lot of Windows dev. work right now so I went ahead and put XP back on my box.

  • http://www.averageadmins.com/ chris

    This couldn’t have come at a more opportune time:

    http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2007/07/17/how-to-cleanly-stop-explorer-exe-on-windows-vista.aspx

    It’s funny, reading the method he goes through to stop explorer and then restart it.

    It’s coincidental that a bash.org quote was posted today that pretty accurately describes Aaron’s instructions:

    783472 +(150)- [X]

    It’s really simple to watch a move, just open the console, and type ” ffmpeg -i “$(find ~/.mozilla -regex ‘.Cache.‘ -a -not -regex ‘.CACHE.‘ -printf ‘%T+ %pn’ | sort -n | awk ‘{ print $2 }’ | xargs file | grep -i “Video” | tail -1 | awk -F : ‘{ print $1 }’)” -vcodec msmpeg4v2 -b 200 -ab 64 -ar 22050 -s 320×240 /tmp/video.avi ANYONE CAN DO IT

  • http://www.averageadmins.com chris

    This couldn’t have come at a more opportune time:

    http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2007/07/17/how-to-cleanly-stop-explorer-exe-on-windows-vista.aspx

    It’s funny, reading the method he goes through to stop explorer and then restart it.

    It’s coincidental that a bash.org quote was posted today that pretty accurately describes Aaron’s instructions:

    783472 +(150)- [X]

    It’s really simple to watch a move, just open the console, and type ” ffmpeg -i “$(find ~/.mozilla -regex ‘.Cache.‘ -a -not -regex \ ‘.CACHE.‘ -printf ‘%T+ %p\n’ | \ sort -n | awk ‘{ print $2 }’ | xargs file | \ grep -i “Video” | tail -1 | awk -F : ‘{ print $1 }’)” \ -vcodec msmpeg4v2 -b 200 -ab 64 -ar 22050 -s 320×240 \ /tmp/video.avi ANYONE CAN DO IT


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