Journal SpoonMeiser's Journal: Why I hate MicroSoft. Volume 1 2
If I was able to code programs that ran on Microsoft operating systems, it'd perpetuate their monopoly... I mean, if I was a good coder, people would want to run my apps/games and need an MS OS to run them.
However, Microsoft seems to want to punish me for even thinking such things. The DirectX SDK is nearly 170 MB, now that takes a long time to download... it doesn't help that Internet Explorer kept telling me that it'd finished after 30 MB. Microsoft also want to charge me for Visual Studio, the package I would use to develop software for thier system.
Not wanting to pay for software and an SDK to develop software that would potentially encourage people to pay Microsoft even more money for their OS to run my software (on the off-chance that I might have developed something worthwhile), I opted to attempt to download the SDK (as opposed to paying $15) and pirate Visual Studio
However, installing Visual Studio
So, where as before I was a potential developer for the MS platform... I now thoroughly despise Microsoft. I now run Linux exclusivly. Screw learning DirectX, who makes an SDK that's 170 MB anyway??
Just today, Microsoft annoyed me even more. It's like they can reach out beyond my boycott of their products and annoy me with their services, just because they have to annoy me somehow...
Since I left University, Hotmail has been my main e-mail account. Which seemed to work okay for a while. But I tried to apply for a job today, which involved e-mailing my CV to a company. I didn't think this would be a problem, but it appeared that Hotmail didn't let attach files to e-mail anymore. I stared at it for a while, but the button to attach files didn't seem to be there. I tried on my Dads 2k box, and there it was, clear as day, but back on my Linux box, nothing. Perhaps if I was running Opera I could check what happened if I pretended to be an IE client, but under Mozilla, even viewing the source for the page confimed that there was no attachment button.
So, what this means is, although Microsoft feels it's okay to make money by forcing me to see advert banners while I use their Hotmail service, they don't think it's enough money and want to punish me for not spending stupid amounts of money on their operating systems too.
I have to laugh that underneath the compose e-mail text-box it says:
MSN - More Useful Everyday
Edit: it appears that the attachments button has magically reappeared in Hotmail... not that I send e-mails from that account anymore.
Looking forward to vol 2! (Score:1)
Very nice read. I've already heard the thing about the attach button missing. But why use hotmail any longer? That's the same thing like using Windows any longer: you send out ads to people reading your e-mail and give credit to Microsoft. By using Hotmail, you tell everybody it's a good webmail.
However, the latest reports I've read about webmail in some magazines mention Hotmail at the bottom of a ranking. Just before hotmail you have yahoo, and at the top of the ranking you have web.de and gmx.de in Germany. I don't know what kind of webmails you have in the USA though. And yahoo is funny too: if you're registering a US account (yahoo.com) you get 4MB storage. If it's another country, you get 6MB ;-) Good to know that you can register for, say, yahoo.de and then change the language to English.
Re:Looking forward to vol 2! (Score:1)
Glad you liked it... I really needed to rant, and my girlfriend's sick of hearing about MicroSoft already.
I do have another e-mail address now, one that'll allow POP access aswell, but migrating away from Hotmail might take some time as a lot of people, and a number of companies have that e-mail address now.