plz2die Vista... kthx

So after having my new computer for about six months, it's official: I've fuckin had it with Vista.

While exploring files on my Zen, hey--guess what? Windows Explorer crashes. Right on/whatever, but what's this? Microsoft admits Vista sucks? And they have a solution available for immediate download?

Fuckin a, that's beautiful, right? So I go to download, whereupon I'm greeted with a message: Update does not apply to your system.

::Scratches head:: Well, I did try downloading the update for 32 bit systems--I'm pretty sure Home Premium is 32 bit, but I do have a 64 bit processor... maybe that's it? I'll try that.
So I download the 64 bit update: Update does not apply to your system.

So just to recap, make sure we're on the same page: a Microsoft app crashes, which loads another Microsoft application (which is surely running in the background the entire time, taking up some of the 2 Gigs of ram "actively" being used out of my 4Gb total??)

Anyways, this Microsoft app launches, performs an analysis, provides a fix, sends me to the MS website. Then I have to DL two additional executables before I can even attempt the download of the fix. These are to verify the "Genuine" Windows software. ("Genuine," in this instance of course reminding me of the word "guarantee," of course reminding me of "He knows it's a guaranteed piece of shit!" a la Tommy Boy) And true to form, that entire resource-intensive process provides me with a guaranteed piece of shit solution: none. And as I go to blog about it, Office 2007 Enterprise crashes.

And really, I just see this as emblematic of everything that's wrong with Vista: 8,000 things to do an a-to-b process. Using ungodly resources in the meanwhile, but looking stylish, I admit.

Actually, this is the new business model for Microsoft products: dress it up (when it doesn't need dressing up) in the name of "user friendliness," while actually obscuring industry standards we've previously set. Don't believe me? You obviously haven't used Office 2007 Enterprise. Oooh, yes, that looks pretty--but where is my sort-by column please? And why do all the file extensions now end in x (.docx, .xlsx, etc.)?

Oh worrrrrd? "Security"? And you say these default file extensions won't work in older copies of MSOffice--copies the rest of the world is still using? Awesome! Fuck it , sign me up!

So perhaps Windows is trying to pull an AOL or Yahoo, using their own success to propel them into obscurity. And if so--then it doesn't even matter if Steve Jobs over at Apple is a bigger cunt than the "I'm a Mac" marketing would lead you to believe.