Noryungi's Journal: Microsoft is bidding US$ 44.6bn for Yahoo.

Allow me to be very clear: if Microsoft succeeds, I'll leave Yahoo forever.

And I mean forever: no more Yahoo email accounts (I have three right now), no more Yahoo blog, no flickr, no nothing.

I'll not support Microsoft in any way. I refuse to buy Microsoft keyboards and mouse (see here, here or here for alternatives). I refuse to buy Microsoft software and OS (see here, here or here for alternatives). I will never buy anything XBox or Microsoft-related when it comes to games (see here, here or here for alternatives). And, in the future, I will stop using all the services provided by Yahoo if it is bought by Microsoft.

Please understand me: this is not unreasoned hatred. I used to work quite happily under DOS, Windows 3 and even Windows 95.

But then it struck me: these products are complete and utter tripe. They are slow, bloated, unstable, ugly, un-creative and uninteresting. That kind of realization came, I think, because I used to own an Amiga before I bought my first PC. And, trust me, using an Amiga way back in the '80s was using a machine that was head and shoulders above everything Microsoft produced at the time. Even a modern-day Windows XP feels dull (and dumb) compared to some of the things I used to do with my Amiga back in the days.

Installing free software (Linux at first, BSD soon after that) instead of Microsoft products was like a breath of fresh air. Scratch that: it was like breathing freely again after being waterboarded for hours by manic, psychopathic sadists. It was that kind of sweet relief.

So, maybe it is time to say "Goodbye Yahoo and thanks for all the emails". We'll see. But I refuse to support Microsoft, no matter what.