The technical stance of their software, microsoft products are becoming more and more a mess of inefficiency resulting in lots of wasted time and treating the user like a retard.
This issue here appears to be the efficiency of the new software. Tossing in a windows 8 key and performing an upgrade. It's supposed to be easy. Someone probably forgot to upgrade one piece of software out of the huge mess of multiple ways to upgrade.
Other things that irk me.
Can't install the latest service pack because a language pack must be removed first, language pack refuses to uninstall, download special hotfix that doesn't work, do more reasearch and wast even more time, hotfix finally uninstalls after devising a way myself, then upgrade to service pack whatever.
Can't batch install/uninstall.
Get reminded that i have to restart for update every 4 hours (updates will get taken care of when i shutdown the computer at the end of the day, and install when turned on the next).
Get ****ing reminded if i'm really really really really sure that i want to shutdown/restart (i hit shutdown, i'm pretty sure that's what i intended to do even with open programs).
Windows activation is a hassle (install and then done? no).
Windows update and how you have to run it a few times to finally get all of the updates (i understand certain being installed before others, but i don't want to have to run windows update six or more ****ing times after a fresh install to get it up to date, maybe it could download all of the updates first, the install them in a certain order later).
I hate working on windows computers, so i just don't anymore. I don't want to find out how convoluted stuff is in newer releases. I can't call windows non-****. The other thing i also think a lot about is the user. If it's this much of a pain to work to fix and prep windows, then how much of a pain is it for somebody trying to be productive on it? How easy is it for users to break stuff?
