Planet Geek!: Another reason I detest Windows.

Folks are well aware that I'm not exactly a screaming Microsoft advocate. While I concede they've done more to advance and stabilize the concept of 'Computers for Everyone' than virtually any other manufacturer (save perhaps Apple), they've done so in such a poor, disorganized, and ruthless fashion, it's resulted in a global environment that is virtually impossible to be productive in without spending enormous amounts of time and money on licensing, virus protection, system tuning, configuration, and security auditing.

I offer as evidence, dear readers, my experience trying to set up my son's computer this afternoon. It's installed with a (licensed!) copy of Windows 2000, running on an AMD Duron 850mghz machine with 512meg of RAM. No slouch is this machine, and the goal today was simply to get it to the point where he could run his Reader Rabbit game.

What follows is a Rant. Read at your own risk.

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Category: Geekitude

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