Man is Windows frustrating. I’ve been working on websites this evening and since 80% of the world uses IE on Windows I must resign myself to testing sites on IE for Windows.

Well anyway, Windows started nagging me about an update while I was in the middle of working. It was annoying too because I had all my browsers and different various windows just where I wanted them and this nag window would pop up right over them while I was doing something. It had a little progress bar and said that Windows would automatically restart in 10 minutes if I did nothing. And it had buttons to restart now or ignore till later. To make a long story longer, I clicked restart later. I didn’t want to bother with restarting since Windows take approximately 3.5 years to restart.

Well 5 minutes later up popped the dialog again. “Now that’s frustrating,” I thought to myself. “Didn’t I just tell this infernal thing I would restart later?” So I clicked later… AGAIN! Well apparently Windows thought it misunderstood me the first 2 times because it did it again. And again. And again.

After a total of 5 times it finally won. You see that last time I was busy doing something else and so ignored it for the 10 minutes it needed. But you know what’s frustrating? I was just clicking over into Windows to test some code I just wrote and it was shutting down.

I gotta tell you I was unimpressed! I told that silly thing 5 TIMES I did not want to restart right now. When an update pops up on Mac OS X, and you tell it later that’s the end of it. It realizes that, “hey, he meant what he said when he said later. To ask again would be interrupting his work.” Not to mention, automatically restarting after I clicked later?!? That’s out of the question!

So yeah, I was just reminded in a small way why I do not put up with the troubles that 80% or so of the rest of the world puts up with.

Windows always makes me appreciate my Mac!

From MacNN.com

For those who have Macs, and/or who care…

Please note if this were named like a Windows Service Pack, this would be SP3. XP has been out since 2001, and they just now made it to SP3. I feel sorry for you Windows sufferers. Good old MS just has a hard time getting the updates out!

Well it seems the “iPod killer” Zune has finally come out. I saw it today at Office Depot, and then again at Staples. Funny thing, there was NOBODY at the displays, NOBODY buying these things.

I fiddled with one (yes I touched something that came from Microsoft.. SHUDDER) and I think I will keep my iPod thank you very much.

I’ve gotta tell you this is exciting stuff, except of course that Windoze™ is involved at all, but Windows is with us to stay for a while and Apple is all about making life easier. So they have provided the means to run Windows XP natively on their Intel based systems. This is to smooth the transition from PC to Macintosh. It will assuage user’s fears of the Mac because now they can fall back on Windows and still have the beauty, elegance, and superior hardware of the Mac. So if you want to test drive OS X on your next computer and still have Windows there to make you feel better, Apple has made it possible for you. And those of us who use Macs already know what happens when you try OS X for more than 5 minutes… You are hooked!! OS X is simply the best, most stable, and easiest to use platform on the market. This is of course not to say that OS X doesn’t have it’s flaws, but it’s still the best choice by far!

Very exciting stuff!