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Windows Vista is SHIT

The following is an old article resurrected from an old site, but I liked it so much I thought I'd bring it back from oblivion.

Now I'm sure there's plenty of other articles on the internet detailing how dire Windows Vista is. But since yesterday I was forced to install it since I did something stupid and left my Windows 2000 installation unbootable, and then discovered the only working installation disc I had was for Vista, I am currently in the process of being angered to the point of mindless screaming.

Aside from the constant requests for authorisation to do fucking ANYTHING (I had to click 14 fucking times to confirm installing Flash Player for fucks sake), the OS itself is about as fucking stable as I am. It's reset itself 4 times already today. I'm in the process of downloading a Windows 2000 installation disc, but of course Vista doesn't seem to like any of my bittorrent clients, so that constantly crashing is prolonging the agony of the time I have to spend using this shite.

Then of course there's Microsoft's apparent inability to program a reasonably accurate progress estimation bar, which would be perfectly adequate if they used simple fucking division.

To the untrained eye this might not seem like such a fucking ridiculous screenshot. But when you consider that it's telling me it will take 19 hours to transfer the files, and it ACTUALLY took 10 minutes, it's difficult to see how Microsoft could have gotten this so fundamentally wrong.

For example, there is 11.4gb remaining to transfer. That is roughly 11,674mb. It handily tells me the speed at which the transfer is going. So 11,674 / 18.5 = 631 seconds. 631 / 60 = 10.5 minutes. Simple. So how the FUCK did it think it would take 19 cunting hours?

And finally another small irritation (there are lots of others but I could literally go on forever and the chances are, it would crash and reset before I had chance to finish writing), the new Internet Explorer. When you open a new tab, and it shows you a page entitled "Welcome to Tabbed Browsing", like it's some new fucking innovation.

With tabs you can:
- Use one Internet Explorer window to view all your webpages.
- Open links in a background tab while viewing the page you're on.
- Save and open multiple webpages at once by using favorites and home page tabs.

Like I fucking need that explaining. Like ANYONE needs that explaining. Even the computer illiterate could work it out eventually. But well done Microsoft, on a new feature that CLEARLY you invented. It's not like other, better, browsers haven't had this wonderous ability for fucking years is it?