Sorry to be a bit late on this posting. I was laid up early this month with a flu like bug (nasal congestion,chills, aches, fever, general over all blah). Much better now though.
Then a few weekends ago my computer which I got about 7 and half years ago began having issues. It was clear it was time for a new computer. So I got a new desktop unit (already have the monitor,etc) so I have been spending the past week discovering the byzantine software known as Windows 10.
I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir here when I say this is the most Rube Goldbergish bit of software that Microsoft has yet come up with. The initial booting up and configuring took so long I nearly lapsed into a coma waiting.
Then the grueling process of creating a password and pin number. Seriously? A pin number? Well…..ok. Then a whole series of options that Microsoft recommended but for which I mostly had no use for. Each time I deselected the option, the font would change to a red color and plaintively warn me of the dire consequences of not keeping that option.
Window 10: But if you dont use this, you won’t be able to use thus and so for this and that.
Me: I don’t even have a this and that,so why would I want to do thus and so?
And so forth. A trial copy of Office 365 proved so cumbersome to try and activate, that I found myself saying Many Bad Words, which would have sent my late mother running for the Lifebuoy soap. I finally gave up in disgust and downloaded Open Office instead. I was intending to do that anyway but Microsoft induced me to do it a lot faster.
So my spare time is being spent on a learning curve fit for Albert Einstein. The folks at Microsoft would do well to take a page from Henry David Thoreau: “Simplify! Simplify! Simplify!!!!”
