I am not a moron
I run a successful computer game developer employing over 100 staff.
Because we program for the Xbox 360 (amongst others) we need to run a windows environment.
Given that on average I swear at Windows once a day when it prevents me from doing my job, then I feel the term Windoze is relatively mild (and don't get me started on Vista).
Furthermore, MS do make some good products, some of their dev tools, and the office suit (albeit now bloated) are great, and yes they make a lot of money from them, fine that I what their shareholders expect, nay demand of them, so I would take the M$ moniker as a complement.
On a related note, I also object to the way many MS product treat me like a moron, is there a switch somewhere to say I am an experienced user, and if I ask a program to do something, I problem mean it, no need to double, triple check, etc.
Petty I know, but here is an example that really annoys me, being a programmer at heart, when typing an opening bracket, I am in the habit of then typing the closing bracket, and backtracking to fill in the relevant sum, good practice, however the MS programming boffins feel otherwise and feel compelled to pop up and error dialog, patronizing stating the formula I have typed contains an error, where in fact it is their assumption I have finished typing the formula is wrong.
Imaging in the real world when you were talking if someone kept interrupting you and telling you that you were not making sense, before you had a chance to string more than a few words together?
In this case its MS that assumes you are a moron, and by doing so expose their own idiocy.
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I am not a moron I run a successful computer game developer employing over 100 staff. Because we program for the Xbox 360 (amongst others) we need to run a windows environment. Given that on average I swear at Windows once a day when it prevents me from doing my job, then I feel the term Windoze is relatively mild (and don't get me started on Vista). Furthermore, MS do make some good products, some of their dev tools, and the office suit (albeit now bloated) are great, and yes they make a lot of money from them, fine that I what their shareholders expect, nay demand of them, so I would take the M$ moniker as a complement. On a related note, I also object to the way many MS product treat me like a moron, is there a switch somewhere to say I am an experienced user, and if I ask a program to do something, I problem mean it, no need to double, triple check, etc. Petty I know, but here is an example that really annoys me, being a programmer at heart, when typing an opening bracket, I am in the habit of then typing the closing bracket, and backtracking to fill in the relevant sum, good practice, however the MS programming boffins feel otherwise and feel compelled to pop up and error dialog, patronizing stating the formula I have typed contains an error, where in fact it is their assumption I have finished typing the formula is wrong. Imaging in the real world when you were talking if someone kept interrupting you and telling you that you were not making sense, before you had a chance to string more than a few words together? In this case its MS that assumes you are a moron, and by doing so expose their own idiocy.