Microsoft Misery

What is it with Microsoft and it's updates???? Is it just me?

It's a hell of a long way from Kalmar to Goteburg. Sweden is a large country. It doesn't need much of a motorway system. Long straight highways through the mega forest are enough. The double trucks rumbling on forever. I need two stops this leg, so I find a Macdonalds for a half hour coffee break to catch up with emails. Some of these are important. Am I seeing a friend on Monday? How is the house sale going? OK for Stockholm later?

Macdonalds delivers. Reasonably priced coffee and reliable WiFi. It is a strain to use it though due to an infestation of under 18 month olds. What is happening today? Is it bring a baby get a discount week? There are maybe 25 of the noisy little things, squealing, screaching, whaling and making the place sticky and stinky. I find the least sticky table I can and start up boB. DOWNLOADING UPGRADES. A very hot coffee lasts twenty minutes or so, which is less time than microsoft takes preventing me from using this important tool. This is of course followed by reconfiguring and "please Don't turn off your computor", as if the geeks know exactly how much they are annoying customers. After half an hour of this moronic process, I force a shutdown and get on my way, nothing achieved except a slight headache, and sticky elbows.

Do I like babies? YES! But I couldn't eat a whole one!!

A second stop and another attempt to access my emails. No go. boB needs this session to unscramble himslef after I forced a shutdown upon him.

A plea to Microsoft. Please get a grip!