My 10th Anniversary (Score 1)

Ten years ago, I dumped Windows 3.11 off my Packard-Bell Pentium 60 and replaced it with IBM OS/2.

I took this drastic action because I had found by painful experience that Windows only worked as long as I didn't try to do any actual work with it. It was clearly beta quality at best, and I'm reserving more than a few choice words here. To call it junk is putting it mildly.

After the switch to OS/2, my system was like a new computer. It was actually USING the 32-bit instruction capability of the Pentium for which I paid a premium. It would actually handle actual work without crashing every half-hour. Oh, I could go on and on...

The point is, that I, an uninformed PC buyer, had been duped by Microsoft. When the light of reality shone in on the fraud, I resolved then and there to NEVER buy ANY other Microsoft product, EVER.

In the intervening years, Microsoft has proven, time after time, that they are nothing more than a gang of felons out to con the world. If you do business with Microsoft, you are dealing with a gang of organized criminals, plain and simple. If you give money to Microsoft for any reason, you are paying protection, plain and simple. What part of extortion don't you understand?

I refuse to support organized crime.
Do you?