gotta do it just this one time.
i’ve used windows from the beginning — along with the MS office suite. tried crossing over to mac about a year ago and just couldn’t do it. i still have the macbook, and use it occasionally — although now, with yet ANOTHER windows computer of mine becoming all fucked up all by itself, it may be getting more use in the very near future.
which is why today’s announcement that google is about to release an OS for the desktop made me so happy.
i have HAD IT with windows and all its concomitant, bloated bullshit problems. i have HAD it with an operating system where USB devices work on one machine but not another according to the version of the OS. i am SICK AND TIRED of the blue screen of death. i am SICK AND TIRED of unnecessary — and unnecessarily complex — application updates. office 2007? people like myself who’d been using MS Word et al for YEARS had to practically relearn the program from scratch. and microsoft sent a big Fuck You to all those excel wonks out there, by making the new version incompatible with macros written in all previous versions. i could personally care less about excel macros, but i know people who regularly used macros they’d been fine-tuning for years — years! — through one upgrade to another, who suddenly (and without warning) became unable to run what might have been one of their most important tools.
what the fuck? are we customers, or subjects?
so while i’m not crazy about the chrome browser (it’s a browser, nothing special nothing terrible, it just didn’t give me enough reason to switch from firefox) i AM crazy about the idea of this new OS and i will adopt it on every computer i have that can handle it. and yes, i’ll port all my docs over to google docs or open office. fewer features than the MS Office suite? yes. but i don’t know a single person who needs, wants or uses all those features. do you?
i am SO done with microsoft and its incompetent, high-handed operations. if google is successful in this OS venture, they will be ringing the death bell up in redmond. and i say bring it on.
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meanwhile, if anyone can recommend a lightweight or web-based alternative to photoshop, i’d love to hear about it. since the adobe suite i have cannot be installed on vista, and microsoft has forbidden hardware manufacturers from shipping any more XP systems. and i’m afraid to downgrade this computer to XP because it has a touch screen, and i am sure that all hell will break loose over the drivers. because this is, after all, windows. it keeps getting bigger, but it’s not getting better.
sigh.
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Yep, I was going to recommend gimp or picnick.
I wish I knew what the hell people are talking about when it comes to technology. I’m still trying to figure out cut and paste!
YOU, and I say this with total personal knowing….take anything you want to do and learn it inside and out. I’ve never met a more intelligent and determined individual like you. What you have managed to learn, accomplish and create is more amazing than I can describe to those readers of yours who do not know you personally.
I think you would eventually master any system. By the way, you got a new computer that is TOUCH SCREEN??!! Man, am I ever out of the tech loop. I didn’t even know that was available outside cell phones. See what I mean??!!
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