An open letter to the bastards at microsoft

Dear Bill Gates & co,

I have always supported, used, and defended your products (even to the hordes of rabid Mac users out there), but I am so SO unimpressed by your newest (two year old) operating system that my unimpressededness is unimpressed.

And by unimpressed, what I really mean is frustrated to the point of throwing this shiny new computer out the window or wiping it clean and teaching myself to use Linux.

I just... XP was awesome. And you had to go fuck with awesome. Why?

I'm not talking about your lack of drivers to support my current hardware. I'm not talking about Vista's lack of recognition of my new hardware. This new o/s doesn't even play happily WITH YOUR OWN PRODUCTS. So far, I've had internet explorer bugs at every turn. I've had incompatibility issues with Powerpoint.

I don't even like the new icon!menus. What the fuck was wrong with words? It's sad when it takes a fairly computer literate person ten minutes to figure out where on your unintuitive graphics-only interface to click to save a damn document. This is one reason I've always hated the Mac interface, and you had to go rip it off in an effort to put flashy design ahead of the functionality that's always been the strongest thing you did. Excellent.

That is all. I hope Windows Vista rots in hell (though I'm invested in your stock, so I hope that doesn't tank until I get out).

Have a nice day.

-Kris