Who knew? Dilbert works at Micros--t! On the Zune team!

I got a cast off Zune a while back, and hadn't had the time to mess with it until yesterday. Its an older player with 32GB - kind of heavy and clunky and ugly. Did I say its made by Micros--t?

I found it interesting that my Windows 7 Mobile Device Center doesn't recognize the unit at all when you plug it into a USB port. Nor does Windows Media Player recognize the device to sync to. Does anyone besides me think that its weird that Micros--t makes the OS, makes the media player software, and makes the device itself, but they don't work together? This could only happen with Micros--t (or a government program).

I downloaded the Zune 3.0 software and installed it, and the player managed to come to life. With what little experience I've had, the player seems to play OK. The user interface is awful, but talk about crappy interfaces... Have you seen the Zune 3.0 software?!!? It sucks only the way a Micros--t product can.

Why I continue to be amazed at the sheer crappiness of Micros--t products, I don't know, but they always manage to outdo themselves.

Micros--t Bing - for Bing-a-lings

Micros--t has a new search engine – Bing. All the rage for the past few days in the Blogosphere.

I guess I’m a sucker for trying stuff out, but I figured I’d give Bing a chance in comparison to the tried and true Google.

I wanted to find an online copy that I knew existed of an old out-of-print book titled “The Black Hills Trails” by Jesse Brown and A. M. Willard. I searched for ‘black hills trails brown willard’ in Bing, and the first 10 results returned 0 - as in Zero (coincidentally the quality level of Microsoft products)- items that had anything to do with this book.

I entered the same search in Google, and 10 out of 10 of the first page of results were in reference to this book.

Now I’m certain that results may vary based on the specific search terms and context, however 0% vs 100% is enough for me to make my choice of a search provider. At least I didn’t lose hours of time like I have with the other Micocrap products.

Now Micros--t can offer pathetic search to complement their pathetic OS products.

 

Lest we forget...

Yes, I have been overly obsessed with the pathetic nature of Micros--t’s desktop operating systems. So much so that it seems that I have neglected to give Micros—t’s mobile OS its share of well-deserved derision. I can say that my combination Samsung Omnia with Windows Mobile 6.1 does not suck nearly as much as my Palm Treo with Windows Mobile 5.0, but it certainly has given the Treo a run for its money in the race for the pathos crown. It certainly doesn’t help that the designers at Samsung made some clearly bonehead design decisions, but you could take the most expensive jewelry in the world and dress up the Micros—t pig and it would still be a pig. But we can save this topic for another day. Suffice it to say that Windows Mobile certainly rounds out the full line of crap that makes up Redmond’s portfolio.

Micros--t's resemblance to a septic tank...

Ya gotta love these morons. These Micros—theads have gotta be the biggest assortment of clowns the world has ever known (except, perhaps, for the Democrat party).

I turn on my computer this morning and find that all of my file permissions have been changed – every single one of them. I basically can’t open nuthin’. I shut down my machine thinking that its just one of those Micros—t turds that pop up every so often. So the second time, Vista wants to totally rebuild my desktop. It takes a few minutes to do this – I’ve seen this turd before and hope it isn’t one of the big ones that stop up this Vista toilet.

I reboot again and get back to my normal desktop, but still can’t open anything because all the file permissions have changed.

So it’s off to rebuild my file permissions and deal with the detritus of yet another Micros—t bowel dump. Thanks Micros—t for destroying most of my day. I hate you!

 

Where’s the plunger?

 

 

It's Baaack!

Well, its been nigh on four weeks since the last Micros—t malware attack via the Spooler SubSystem App virus that they distribute with Vista. I thought that maybe I had the thing licked by avoiding Adobe Acrobat (which seemed to be a culprit). But, alas, I should have known better. As buggy as Adobe’s products are, Micros—t can trump them all.

Fortunately, I have been backing up the working directory for printer drivers by backing up c:\windows\system32\spooler directory. Hopefully, by restoring this, I will get back to working conditions.

 

"Windows 7 RC 64-bit Product Key

You may use the following product key to activate your evaluation copy of Windows 7 RC 64-bit.
Product key: KGMPT-GQ6XF-DM3VM-HW6PR-DX9G8

Please print this page for your records.
Downloading the Windows 7 Release Candidate could take a few hours. The exact time will depend on your provider, bandwidth and traffic. The good news is that once you start the download, you won’t have to answer any more questions – you can walk away while it finishes. If it gets interrupted, it’ll restart where it left off. See this FAQ for details."

Deja Vu All Over Again

I came in to work early this morning hoping to catch up on some work. I often find myself falling behind thanks to the crappy products from Micros—t that suck my time and energy trying to fix. Since my last nightmare with Vista’s spool subsystem error, I’ve only installed three new print drivers in hopes that one of those I’ve left out was the culprit. But noooo. As soon as I boot up my Vista system – BOOM – SPOOLER SUBSYSTEM ERROR. Frankly, I don’t have the time for this Microcrap this morning, so I’ll have to resort to waiting until I need a print job, opening a command prompt window, executing the net start spooler command, printing immediately, and waiting for the error to resurface.

My hatred for Micros—t has sapped too much energy from me, but still… I HATE YOU MICROS—T!!!