Last week, I upgraded my desktop machine at work from Win2K Pro to XP Pro. I didn’t realize how much the upgrade was going to annoy me.
Over the past couple of months, I’ve had to burn a license to get a machine that should be good to go re-activated. Microslop support turned out to be zero help when an OEM installation wouldn’t re-activate on the same machine it was installed on to begin with.
Next, I upgraded from Win2K Pro to XP pro on my work machine (the user it was intended for ended up with a brand new machine). I got hosed again, this time by Adobe. Photoshop CS required a re-activation because of the upgrade. When I called their tech support, I was told it was in service on two other machines. Both of those are dead-lined, I told her. Tough cookies is what she told me.
So, bye-bye Microsoft, asta la vista Adobe, I finally have had enough. $900 to use software we’ve already paid for, what kind of suckers do you think we are? We got the CEO on a pimped-out iMac a couple of months ago. Sure it’s running Winblows now (via Bootcamp), but ANOTHER software vendor looks like they are getting too big for their tighty-whiteys. When the bills start rolling across for this next set of clowns, I’m fairly sure we can kiss the whole family good-bye. We are already well underway migrating our systems from MSSQL to MySQL. Too bad for the vendors that still require crappy Active-X controls that gut browser security in the first place. You are going to lose some business. These other goombas are providing enough straw to break the camels back.
I took my home Windows install down, and am happily writing this post on my personal desktop running Kate on SUSE 10.1. I installed it on a Proliant DL360 I picked up, so I figured, why not on my desktop too? Review of SUSE install to follow.
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