Just Uber

Getting into work early this morning, I decided to have a brief look at what’s going on in the world of IT. Despite feeling a bit fed up when I arrived, reading this excellent article on znet, written by Rupert Goodwin about his experiences of Gutsy really cheered me up!

Have a gander yourself. One particular comment by ‘ConceptJunkie’ about Microsoft’s new Vista campaign “100 reasons why everyone’s so speechless” made me laugh out loud.

“I looked. #23 is “Because it’s like a digital candy store.”

Puh-leeze. Bring up the Adept Manager in Ubuntu. Now _that’s_ a digital candy store. Over 20000 applications for doing almost anything you can imagine, and quite a few things you can’t. Running Vista is like being in a candy store that only sells black liquorice (I _hate_ black liquorice) at exorbitant prices. Oh, and you’re only allowed to eat the candy in the store. Plus each individual piece is really small and is wrapped in seven layers of cellophane, and the store won’t let you throw the wrappers away. You have to take them with you and throw them away at home. Plus they set off a grenade in the chocolate store across the street in the middle of the night and mugged the proprietors of the penny candy stand. Oh, and Microsoft are the ones behind the urban legend that red M&Ms cause cancer. That’s the kind of candy store Vista is.”

You heard it here first folks, Microsoft engages in urban candy terrorism….

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