Thursday, May 29, 2008

Microsoft SUCKS!

I'm just going off on a rant here. I'm working on a project for a client. It's not a difficult one, but it does happen to be in Microsoft Access. This used to be a nice programming system for those 'quick and dirty' applications. You could make it do quite a bit but then, they decided it should have more programming power. Then they shut off alot of the old functions that used to work so well. Then they changed the command structure again til it's little more than QuickBasic that I used to use 20+ years ago with a forms and report generator with a database backend. This is progress? This is what they want customers to blow several hundred dollars on every few years? I think Bill has been smoking something up in that high tech pushbutton command center of an office of his. The worst part is the people in the corporate world just keep going right along with the upgrade process. I have one thing to say for these people - Baaaaaaaa (how do you type out the sound a sheep makes?). When I take over the world econcomy and the corporate IT structure, we'll all be on a Windows 2000/XP pro desktop and a FreeBSD server. This is the general setup most of my clients have and you know, I just don't have the nasty problems some companies have with their computers and it's all done pretty inexpensively. Does the world need prettier pictures on the desktop? Some might, but for the rest of us, save the money and stick with what works and isn't a pain in the ass. Otherwise, just go buy a MAC. It's really FreeBSD behind the OS X window dressing. Steven Jobs, please send the check to this address.....

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