I Hate Microsoft Windows

Having to use Windows is horrible, there's no scripting and - but before I start moaning, let's look at what's just happened and then hint at the solution. I've been using Windows for an hour. There are a few problems, some minor usage quirks like getting an error message after hitting return to enter my username to login, instead of the cursor moving down to the password field, and some major incompatibilties like an inability to cut and paste tables from Word into Outlook. (Why is an email program called Outlook?) Come on, Office is supposed to be a suite. The first few columns of the table do not get transferred. The table cell does not resize so that I can type the numbers in. Suddenly sending a helpful email to my boss becomes a major challenge.

Printing is a big problem in Windows. I made a selection by dragging the cursor across some text. CTRL/P. (Why place the CTRL key on the corner of the keyboard, further away fom the letters?) The print dialogue had the selection option greyed out! I thought I could get around this madness by only printing page 37. Stupid Windows then printed the entire document.

(That reminds me: why are there different print dialogues? If I want to print an image from Internet Explorer I do not get an option to scale the image to the paper, but if I print from Photo Editor then I do. And that's another thing: the program is called 'Microsoft Photo Editor', not 'Photo Editor'. Why does Microsoft always do this?)

"Hardware Threshold Alert: HP Client Manager has detected that your disk space threshold is below 22 percent" (sic). Leaving aside the neologism and that I do not want HP to manage me, I do not wish to be informed about thresholds. Usage, maybe. Maybe they meant usage and wrote threshold.

"Java (TM) updates are ready to download." Great, I love Java. I kicked off the install but "the NTVDM CPU encountered an illegal instruction". What does that mean - can't they write it in English like on other operating systems? Another annoyance is that it is not possible to copy/paste the error text from the alert (which also contains long numbers) in order to pass it on to support, so I imagine most people won't bother. As with the Outlook problem above, Windows has put obstacles in my way so that the job does not get done.

The attitude of Windows users is: don't worry about it. I can't understand this, coming from the Mac community. We would scream and holler on Macfixit.com or the Apple forums if there were similar problems with the Mac OS and Apple would have put it right years ago. Yet the Windows users, millions of them, just put up with this crap. It never gets fixed. Their workflow is interrupted and has extra steps. Weird. They need a step change. They need a website.