Microsoft, Inc., should be shut down simply because they continue to manufacture an operating system that fails for no particular reason right when I'm in the middle of something important. With annual investments as well as turnover in the billions of dollars, why have they not been able to eliminate any possibility of the Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD)?
It doesn't help that MS Office 2007-onward has an auto-save feature: if they have to deploy something like that, they've to do it right. If the mechanism has been included for convenience's sake, then I don't want to be shown multiple copies of the file and asked which one I want to view or delete depending on the timestamp. If it has been included as a compensation against the BSOD, then the auto-save function is valuable only if it automatically saves the once every minute and not once every three minutes. With a typing speed of 75 words per minute, I lose 150 words right there.
If anything, they should just dump the auto-save functionality and focus on making an OS that's as big but not as critically inconsistent! I have always taken the romantic path to computing experience and have consciously rejected the Mac at all points of time for its oversimplification of concepts, but the BSOD is not something I'm willing to tolerate because it has a direct and frustrating impact on my work.
Many people like the OS and some can make do with the absence of a sensible design philosophy, but this algorithmic vortex is bound to lose MS some customers when, as competition builds, all that stands between one OS and the other is the BSO-fucking-D.
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