and then there's windows 8

and from my preliminary reading i probably should have upgraded to windows 7 a long time ago rather than continuing to suffer through windows vista (oh, and if you haven't been following along, today the complaint department moved from hither and yon, yon being somewhere over there and hither being somewhere over elsewhere, besides the meaningless complaints and consumer advice i occasionally provide with tongue in and out of teeth, though seldom biting on it, in order to keep the whiney little cry baby pooper party-er out of (e)thereal cuz the wah wah woofer is a member of the babbler clan and babblers have been mostly banished from this blog of brevity {and bravery, some might say}, but today, the dikes must have broke or something cuz this little piggy cried wee wee weee all the way home, i mean, just in case you didn't notice, ahrem and all) but noooooooooo, i just had to be irrationally frugal once again and forego the expense of the upgrade and continue to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous coding in this advanced stage of ME operating system called vista and now, windows 8 claims the stage as the next folly among horse and carriage blunders and brilliance (do we wonder why most business, hospitals, and corporations still use windows XP?... maybe because it works and investing in the training and potential IT nightmares of the roller coaster ride of operating systems that have come out since XP was not only not cost effective, but counter-productive and did not make sense... oh, but consumers don't have to be productive and make sense, do we?...

it has long been apparent that microsoft (and the apple too) has a vision of what you and i and aunt maude and everybody should be doing with our personal computers and an insistence on how we should do what they want us to do... it's cost effective for them, regardless if it works for us... so what i read tells me windows 7 fixed most of the flaws in vista and provided a smooth user experience and windows 8 takes away much of the user experience only to replace it with the app experience we are locked into on our phones and pads... whatever happened to the personal computer, those who remember them might ask?... well, they are to be replaced by computers for dummies, touch pad boxes that tell you what to do and how to do it and to hell with your individuality or creativity or privacy, for that matter... heck, you can post to your facebook without even logging in right from your screen... well who the hell wants all the apps and personal information we keep on our personal computers out there readily available to facebook without even a log on password?...

ok, so perhaps i prejudge the windows 8 experience... but i know i want most of the pre-loaded apps off my smart phone and i have yet to find the time to stop by the att store to insist they remove them because there is no uninstall available for me... and i know that i resent having to log into google in order to actually use my android smart phone... and i will not log in to my email, facebook, twitter, or any other site that has two-way viewing of my contacts and personal information on my phone not only for the privacy but because all the spam and crap on the internet crashed the first four smart phones i purchased (and exchanged) when i did follow the innocent and quite invasive instructions to log in here and there and everywhere that popped up when i first turned on my android smart phone (and they finally gave me a free phone to keep me from buying an iphone, go figure)...

at the moment, i believe i want a windows 7 experience on my next upgrade of os or computer... and i still very much enjoy and appreciate my XP experience at work... the sales and marketing people at microsoft may call me a dinosaur afraid of change... i say, i am not into blind consumerism for consumerism's sake...

it's as simple as this... everybody is always trying to reinvent the wheel to make more money... you don't have to buy a new wheel when you have a perfectly good wheel to get you around...

and besides, i don't want to share all of my porn with just anyone :P

and of course, once again, take me seriously at your own risk :)