Corey J Feldman

Microsoft and Windows 7 – I'm just not that in to you

I’m sorry 7 you’re just not what I am looking for in an OS.  Don’t get me wrong, you’re a definite improvement over the 1 step forward 2 steps backwards that was  Vista.  You got some pretty new bells and whistles and you may even be as stable as Grandma XP (which is good compared to its far past but far from good). While  your Apple charm school lessons have done much to enhance your overall elegance- well it is still so much lipstick on a pig.  When we first got together I knew you were a beta but you have been in release candidate for months now and your still giving me way too many blue screens of death. I know it doesn’t help to point fingers or compare you to other OSs but you have crashed more times in the last month then my trusty macbook has in 2 years.  I’m not saying its over since BeyondTV/Snapstream doesn’t make DVR software for OS X, you will still have a place at the core of my DVR Box. But I have to tell you, if you can’t get your act together I might have to consider MythTV on Linux.  I know crazy Uncle Walt (not really  my Uncle) Mossberg thinks your almost as good as OS X. But your not.  Oh you can still do a few things for me that no other OS can.  But I don’t have to work in Access as much these days and I am getting pretty comfy with MYSQL and as I said, if things don’t improve I might seriously consider Linux/MythTV for the one box (quad core Intel w/ 4 TVtuners and 2 terabytes of HDTV goodness) really keeping you with me at home.

Don’t worry, we can still be work buddies. I’m not planning any moves and I can’t imagine the paradigm shift that would have to happen for our office to go Mac, its just not even possible with our current HRIS software. And its not like I won’t ever see you outside of the office. As I said there are certain things you do very well, and I am willing to keep you around in Virtual Machine form. I will  call on you when I need some quick and dirty MS Office project that can’t be done in Office for Mac or Google Docs.  And when I am done, I can just shut down the VM software and forget about you until our next month boot up call.

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