Never a dull moment with Microsoft, where the routine is now impossible thx to all the recent improvements
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Thursday, July 30, 2015
In the end, the Windows 10 upgrade failed. No surprise here.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
Update: One Win 10 upgrade fail. One success. Fail probably
due to a drive failure... On a different computer, the success is working
great.
Update 2 August 5, 2015: Two successes. One Win 10 upgrade fail. One
success. Fail probably due to a drive failure... On a different computers, the
successes are working great.
A friend suggested, “Get an Apple.” I have an Apple and I
was a pathetic Apple immigrant. Threw my hands up the air and went back to PC.
But Caroline gets along with the Apple just great. Me, not so much. In the end,
I gotta get my work finished... My editors do not care what I use to write
stories - they just care that I get them written.
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Migrating to Windows 8 by Kevin E. Dayhoff June 12, 2013 www.TheTentacle.com
My latest experience with Microsoft has left me with the
technological equivalent of post-traumatic stress disorder. In the last
six-months I have migrated light years from the Microsoft Windows XP operating
system to Windows 8. It was not easy.
I’m told the twitching and the nightmares will stop with the
passage of time and copious amounts of coffee. When I finally pulled the plug
on my old laptop for the last time, I had this awful feeling in the pit of my
stomach as if I had just taken a loved-one off of life support.
That feeling was quickly replaced by the sheer terror of
dealing with an improved computer system in which I could no longer
easily perform so many of the functions I had executed effortlessly in the
previous, now obsolete, system.
The Microsoft Windows operating systems have been a major
force in the modern-era of technology and personal computing. The roots of the
software system date back to 1981, although the first version, Windows 1.0 was
not available for consumer use until late in 1985.
One of the most popular and widely used systems in history
has been the Windows XP system, which was introduced in August 2001, and
dominated the market until Windows 7 (released in 2009,) overtook it in August
2012. Windows 8 was released in October 2012.
According to multiple media accounts … read more: http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5828
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Windows 7 and Burger King
I found this ad for Windows 7 and Burger King on Twitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff here: http://twitpic.com/mlizq
I’m not sure I have the nerve to try Window 7 anytime soon. Fortunately I did not make the mistake many of my friends made by “down – err - upgrading” to Vista. I’m aware of a number of horror stories involving downtime and challenges in which Microsoft wanted writers to really be full-time Microsoft software technicians…
Then again, there is the persistent problem of Microsoft’s lack of any sort of meaningful customer service support – or at least that was my experience a number of years ago.
I laughed at this picture when I received it a number of years ago. Candidly, I would not care if customer support was located on the planet Mars, as long as it was helpful – and all too often it was not.
These days when I buy a product or engage a service, one of the determining factors in my decision to buy is how the question, “What is customer service like?” is answered.
Often when customer service is located overseas it is not really customer service but a Potemkin approach so that the company which sold the product can say that it provides customer service. All-too-often, the customer service employees located overseas are not provided with the “tools” or the training to provide real customer service.
I wonder if I am the only person in the world to have noticed that Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, made his fortune with a boorish and predacious company that sold a product that did not/does not work well – or performed poorly, was overpriced and had little, if no customer support? I’m just asking.
Then again, there is the persistent problem of Microsoft’s lack of any sort of meaningful customer service support – or at least that was my experience a number of years ago.
I laughed at this picture when I received it a number of years ago. Candidly, I would not care if customer support was located on the planet Mars, as long as it was helpful – and all too often it was not.These days when I buy a product or engage a service, one of the determining factors in my decision to buy is how the question, “What is customer service like?” is answered.
Often when customer service is located overseas it is not really customer service but a Potemkin approach so that the company which sold the product can say that it provides customer service. All-too-often, the customer service employees located overseas are not provided with the “tools” or the training to provide real customer service.
I wonder if I am the only person in the world to have noticed that Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, made his fortune with a boorish and predacious company that sold a product that did not/does not work well – or performed poorly, was overpriced and had little, if no customer support? I’m just asking.
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