{"id":373,"date":"2011-06-02T10:56:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T08:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/?p=373"},"modified":"2011-06-02T15:22:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T13:22:46","slug":"microsoft-windows-is-pathetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/2011\/06\/02\/microsoft-windows-is-pathetic\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Windows is pathetic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2291\/1521840150_16b7bb0415.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"MS cds\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2291\/1521840150_16b7bb0415.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of peru, lili eta marije<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I know this title is going to bore the hell out of most of you. We had this religious fight about Linux, Windows and Mac OS and other OS&#8217;s for the last 20 years and longer \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m right now sitting in a conference, like almost every week, and right now, as in many cases in the past month, the presenter is busy clicking away pop-up messages from the presentation laptop running Windows. &#8220;Process X has experienced problems and needs to close. Do you want to send a report?&#8221;.\u00a0&#8220;Process Y has experienced problems and needs to close. Do you want to send a report?&#8221;. &#8220;Adobe Reader is outdated but there is an update available. Do you want to update now?&#8221;. No, I don&#8217;t. Ok, the latter is not a windows problem but a problem of the spirit that Windows evaporates.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Microsoft: Computers are for doing work or having fun (playing games, watching videos, listening to music). In all of the cases, the user has made a decision to perform a particular activity, such as presenting a talk. It is not up to you to point out that now he or she should be doing something else, such as updating your outdated operating system (or should I say: User Interface?) What is the consequence? Use MacOS or Linux for presentations (the latter only if you know how to use xrandr :-)).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know this title is going to bore the hell out of most of you. We had this religious fight about Linux, Windows and Mac OS and other OS&#8217;s for the last 20 years and longer \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;m right now sitting in a conference, like almost every week, and right now, as in many cases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}