"Just Because You're Paranoid Doesn't Mean There's Not Somebody After You"

Often you see opinions here. They usually come from good research, the heart, experience, comments, emails or word of mouth. 100% of the people that have passed on information about Windows Home Basic absolutely hate it. Seems there are many driver compatibility issues and one client told me yesterday that QuickBooks Pro will not run on this operating system. Also, to the person from Redmond Washington that is visiting the site, if you are with Microsoft and don't like these comments we can talk. You don't have to snoop around with some voodoo address. Talk to me! Change my opinion!

Another story pertaining to Microsoft is one of their bloggers that has had three years free rein to say what he wanted has decided, Microsoft Sucks. Read this article please. Seems they are too busy trying to compete with Google and not spending enough time writing good code. If they run off Steve Ballmer that might be a very positive step. This task will probably take a very large stick because he appears to be an idiot everytime he opens his mouth. Maybe it's the media being prejudice? The beach house vote is nay.

Hey, I like Windows. There is a change pail at the beach house used to save my pennies and dimes to purchase Vista Ultimate. I'd like to have a copy of Ultimate, the Business version and Home Premium all running beside my Linux and FreeBSD machines. But I won't buy Home Basic. May be that it will be put in the exclude list as far as service, don't know yet. We'll see how many people are suckered into buying this OS that has had extremely bad reviews.

Running Windows 2000 or XP? I'd wait a while before making a purchase. If you are buying a new PC make sure it has Vista Home Premium or above on it. What about Apple and the claims in their TV commercials? They are building a good, average, expensive product with a great operating system which they ripped off from FreeBSD and even admit it. They own only 3% of the market share while Microsoft has somewhere around 90%. So don't believe the commercials. They get virus infections too. The software catalog for Apple is minimal at best while PCs are overflowing with application availability. Besides, Quark, Maia, Photoshop, etc., all run comfortably on PCs so the absolute need for an Apple is not viable. Your money so spend it however.

Yes, I know some of these things have been mentioned several times. Just trying to help. If you think this is annoying wait until my next post about the spyware creeps. It's possible that anyone associated with that industry may have a seat by the fire in hell. To all others let me close by quoting that great and most awesome Texas philosopher Ed Coffin, "Have a better than expected day."

"Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions."
Dave Barry