Microsoft continues to be such a fucking joke. Tonight I try to find a song I might want to purchase. Under Windows 8.1 I get passed to some random app. I type the name of the song I'm looking for ("My Endless Love") and the results send me pretty much to everything I don't want: first it says I should update my "Xbox" app. What? I don't own an Xbox, I never have owned an Xbox, and I will never own an Xbox. What the hell?
Nearly all the "wonderful" apps that came with Windows 8.1 require me to have a Microsoft login. Hint: I've never had a Microsoft login, I don't currently have a Microsoft login, and I never will have a Microsoft login. Thank you very much, idiots.
And if you think that Apple is any better, THINK AGAIN.
Thank {Gg}od for Amazon. I can search for what I want and actually get taken to the correct place, where I can buy a song for a buck. Good luck doing that with Microsoft or Apple.
Amazon, your next project, aside from a brick and mortar joint, should be an actual complete OS, based on Android/Linux/UNIX. Or get Google to help. You're the only vendor that has made any actual sense to me in the past 20 years.
--SDP
Thursday, October 23, 2014
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