Why Does Windows Still Suck?

Why Does Windows Still Suck? 1995

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday February 04, 2005 @05:23PM from the quality-assurance dept.

RatBastard writes "SF Gate's Mark Morford asks: Why Does Windows Still Suck? After wtaching his significant other's Windows PC drown in a sea of viruses and worms after only 4 minutes on her new DSL connection, Mark Morford wonders why the masses have not stormed Redmond waving torches and scythes in anger over the never-ending security flaws in Windows. Why haven't they jetisoned the foul beast from Redmond and migrated en mass to the Macintosh or even Linux?"

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Common sense, for the love of Pete... (Score:5, Funny)

by winkydink ( 650484 ) * writes: <sv.dude@gmail.com> on Friday February 04, 2005 @05:25PM (#11576362) Homepage Journal

Why would you let your SO attach an unpatched and unprotected PC to the Internet? Would the author let her walk SF's Tenderloin after dark in a halter, leather mini & fishnets?

Why Does Windows Still Suck? (Score:4, Funny)

by Bongoots ( 795869 ) * writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @05:25PM (#11576368)

Because it's still Windows.

WHY (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @05:25PM (#11576369)

Why Does Linux Still Suck?

Cool! (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @05:25PM (#11576370)

I haven't had enough Microsoft bashing today, I was starting to get a bit punchy!

No problem with Windows (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @05:25PM (#11576376)

It's not a problem with Windows! The operating system is okay! It's digitally signed!

Re:Common sense, for the love of Pete... (Score:5, Funny)

by Bongoots ( 795869 ) * writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @05:28PM (#11576438)

If an unpatched and unprotected PC connected to the Internet turns you on as much as a chick walking down SF's Tenderloin after dark in a halter, leather mini & fishnets, I'd be concerned as well.

Well, that figures (Score:2, Funny)

by csimpkin ( 808625 ) writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @05:29PM (#11576452)

The McAfee site claims a whopping 91 percent of PCs are infected.

What is Microsoft's market share in the PC market again?

Re:NEWSFLASH! (Score:4, Funny)

by CrackedButter ( 646746 ) writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @05:29PM (#11576460) Homepage Journal

NEWSFLASH # 4
Profit?

Re:Why does your usage of the PC suck? (Score:5, Funny)

by Rosco P. Coltrane ( 209368 ) writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @05:34PM (#11576557)

Do you have to patch your brakes, or update your steering defintions on your car just to make it safe to use?

You don't drive a Ford I take it...

Same thing with Solaris boxes... (Score:5, Funny)

by calebb ( 685461 ) * writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @05:35PM (#11576577) Homepage Journal

Try connecting an unpatched Solaris 2.6 box to the internet. Within a day it will be hacked and much more dangerous than any hacked Windows PC.

Caleb

Re:Common sense, for the love of Pete... (Score:4, Funny)

by Tackhead ( 54550 ) writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @05:35PM (#11576578)

> Why would you let your SO attach an unpatched and unprotected PC to the Internet? Would the author let her walk SF's Tenderloin after dark in a halter, leather mini & fishnets?
You've obviously not seen what's at the bottom of the guy's archive of previous columns [sfgate.com] page...

WINDOWS DOESN'T SUCK! (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @05:36PM (#11576586)

damn it, i'm sick of all the windows bashing.. it's an awesome OS... comes complete with a calculator and a paint program, not to mention the ability to clean your disk (i don't know how they do it, but they must have some crazy washer/dryer system inside) I hear this grinding sound inside my computer so that must be it. Also, it has the ability to change the background picture... how freakin' cool is that!? I can put up a picture of my cats!!! IT'S RIGHT THERE ON MY MONITOR!!! What more could you ask for in an OS?! Come on people!

Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @05:37PM (#11576621)

Comment removed based on user account deletion

you know... (Score:2, Funny)

by suparjerk ( 784861 ) writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @05:38PM (#11576638)

Mark Morford wonders why the masses have not stormed Redmond waving torches and scythes in anger...

The same question could be asked about a few other things in North America....

Classic slashdot technical discussions (Score:5, Funny)

by viva_fourier ( 232973 ) writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @05:40PM (#11576670) Journal

I can already tell this article will find itself in league with the all-time great classic technical-discussion.slashdot.org postings such as:

-Why does Windows still blow?
-Why does my Tux tattoo still itch?
-Why can't I still get a date?

Hit by worms, halter top, fishnets? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @05:46PM (#11576765)

...dark in a halter, leather mini & fishnets?

...but as soon as you are online you are hit by worms.

Did anyone else just get an erotic vision flash in their heads when they saw this stuff? Man, I've got to quit watching so much hentai...

Microsoft Word Perfect (Score:5, Funny)

by Therlin ( 126989 ) writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @05:49PM (#11576834)

That reminds me of an email I got the other day when I asked the user if she had MS Word. I'll paste it here:

"I have microsoft explorer xp, but don't think it's microsoft word. It's call word perfect."

Probably did not realize until it was too late (Score:5, Funny)

by SuperKendall ( 25149 ) * writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @05:52PM (#11576868)

I can see it now - him sitting across the room, her with a laptop on a table... then she reaches around the back of the table and saying "Now I'll try out the internet connection".

Slow motion... the guy throwing himself across the room as the hand with the RJ45 inexorably moves into place faster than he can arrive.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

ALl you need to make it a great scene in a movie is for the laptop to shake, slide off the table, then explode in a huge fireball when it impacts the carpet as the guy knocks her out of the way.

Re:Why? (Score:3, Funny)

by mattyrobinson69 ( 751521 ) writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @05:52PM (#11576870)

I play games and use linux exclusively. I have an xbox.

(for the smart arses that are going to point out the xbox runs a custom win2k kernel, i know, that doesn't count)

Re:No clue (Score:3, Funny)

by wo1verin3 ( 473094 ) writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @06:07PM (#11577103) Homepage

You must be new here.

Re:The Author's A Little Confused Here (Score:2, Funny)

by abenassi ( 846350 ) writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @06:25PM (#11577366)

Put your coat on when you go outside. Wear your seatbelt. Put on SPF 30. Lock your doors. Tie your shoes. Kill the power before you do any electrical work.

Typical slashdotter. You didn't say "Wear a condom."

The real question is... (Score:3, Funny)

by fudgefactor7 ( 581449 ) writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @06:40PM (#11577547)

Why is Mark Morford's SO so abjectly stupid?

Hooking any computer up to the Internet unprotected by a firewall is like having unprotected sex with everyone you see--you will catch something. Should we have sympathy for the chronically stupid? I say "no." I'd wager she's a blonde, too.

Re:Microsoft needs to be banned from preinstalling (Score:5, Funny)

by valkraider ( 611225 ) writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @06:41PM (#11577563) Journal

Heck, if I could get a contract with my employer that forced them to send me a check even though I screw up everything I do, I definately would go for it.

That is called a "Union". Popular for that very reason...

Re:Longhorn is the answer (Score:3, Funny)

by wembley ( 81899 ) writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @06:49PM (#11577653) Homepage

Definitely. Longhorn is 100% secure due to the fact that you can't infect or compromise vaporware.

Also, Longhorn is the only OS that can play Duke Nukem Forever.

Re:Common sense, for the love of Pete... (Score:5, Funny)

by Reducer2001 ( 197985 ) writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @06:56PM (#11577730) Homepage

I know, I'm using Windows and co. all working hours except when writing articles which I do in latex
Hey now!!!!

Re:Why? (Score:2, Funny)

by Stormy Dragon ( 800799 ) writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @07:04PM (#11577843)

Has Windows stopped beating its wife yet?

Re:Longhorn is the answer (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @07:10PM (#11577907)

And there will be G5 Mac minis by the time Longhorn ships. I could buy a Mac mini now, and upgrade to a newer, faster one before the Windows platform is written with security in mind.

Re:Why? (Score:5, Funny)

by Wannabe Code Monkey ( 638617 ) writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @07:12PM (#11577928)

I play games and use linux exclusively. I have an xbox.

(for the smart arses that are going to point out the xbox runs a custom win2k kernel, i know, that doesn't count)

That doesn't make any sense, you can't just arbitrarily decide what does and doesn't count

I have lots of sex and with women exclusively. I also have sex with other straight guys.
(for the smart arses that are going to point out that having sex with another guy is gay, i know, that doesn't count)

I have a lot of fun and don't do drugs. I like crack cocaine
(for the smart arses that are going to point out that crack is modified cocaine, i know, that doesn't count)

I'm good at solving problems and never use violence against any person to do so. I smack my wife around.
(for the smart arses that are going to point out that women are people too, i know, that doesn't count)

Re:Dictionary Malfunction. (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @07:13PM (#11577940)

And aren't Jaguars famous for being finicky unreliable peices of expensive shit?

don't forget unsafe.

Re:Microsoft needs to be banned from preinstalling (Score:3, Funny)

by XMyth ( 266414 ) writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @07:14PM (#11577957) Homepage

You didn't ask me what I meant. I was being a smartass.

Re:Why? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @07:30PM (#11578120)

I have lots of sex and with women exclusively. I also have sex with other straight guys. (for the smart arses that are going to point out that having sex with another guy is gay, i know, that doesn't count)
So you're a mac user?

Re:parent modded how? (Score:2, Funny)

by JNighthawk ( 769575 ) writes: <NihirNighthawk.aol@com> on Friday February 04, 2005 @07:38PM (#11578202)

I'm a gamer.

this is Informative?

Well, weren't you informed that I'm a gamer?

Re:Why? (Score:2, Funny)

by kLaNk ( 82409 ) writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @08:58PM (#11578909)

I operate the back room at a funeral home. All I see are dead people. I guess everybody must be dead then.

Sheesh...

Wow that's new! A mac user who loves macs! (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @10:04PM (#11579414)

A dedicated Mac user that loves macs is from San Fran and probably gay want's to know why everyone doesn't want to hug a mac.

IE or Windows or both? (Score:2, Funny)

by geoffrobinson ( 109879 ) writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @11:04PM (#11579775) Homepage

Isn't a lot of the problem with Internet Explorer and how it integrates with Windows?

Better question? Will anyone be reading post # 1600 in this thread?

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Common sense, for the love of Pete... (Score:5, Funny)

Why Does Windows Still Suck? (Score:4, Funny)

WHY (Score:1, Funny)

Cool! (Score:1, Funny)

No problem with Windows (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Common sense, for the love of Pete... (Score:5, Funny)

Well, that figures (Score:2, Funny)

Re:NEWSFLASH! (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Why does your usage of the PC suck? (Score:5, Funny)

Same thing with Solaris boxes... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Common sense, for the love of Pete... (Score:4, Funny)

WINDOWS DOESN'T SUCK! (Score:5, Funny)

Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)

you know... (Score:2, Funny)

Classic slashdot technical discussions (Score:5, Funny)

Hit by worms, halter top, fishnets? (Score:1, Funny)

Microsoft Word Perfect (Score:5, Funny)

Probably did not realize until it was too late (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Why? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:No clue (Score:3, Funny)

Re:The Author's A Little Confused Here (Score:2, Funny)

The real question is... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Microsoft needs to be banned from preinstalling (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Longhorn is the answer (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Common sense, for the love of Pete... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Why? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Longhorn is the answer (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Why? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Dictionary Malfunction. (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Microsoft needs to be banned from preinstalling (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Why? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:parent modded how? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Why? (Score:2, Funny)

Wow that's new! A mac user who loves macs! (Score:1, Funny)

IE or Windows or both? (Score:2, Funny)

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