If Everything Else Wasn't Enough...

I could hardly contain myself from laughing at this one:

During his annual keynote speech at the 2005 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates suffered technical glitches thanks to his Windows operating system. "During a demonstration of digital photography with a soon-to-be-released Nikon camera, a Windows Media Center PC froze and wouldn't respond to Gates' pushing of the remote control. Later in the 90-minute presentation, a product manager demonstrated the ostensible user-friendliness of a video game expected to hit retail stores in April, Forza Motor Sport. But instead of configuring a custom-designed race car, the computer monitor displayed the dreaded 'blue screen of death' and warned, 'out of system memory.'"

I've seen a video where this happened during a presentation and he just started laughing.

Also this one from Mac Daily News:

Microsoft's Bill Gates' opening keynote at CES did not go entirely to plan, but, then again, when does it ever when Windows is powering the show?

"Bill Gates's legendary luck failed him during his keynote presentation at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas," Iain Thomson reports for vnunet.com. "His demonstration of Microsoft Media Center crashed during the presentation on integrating digital photography, and later a Microsoft product manager failed to access the internet with a Tablet PC."

"The presentation started on a jokey theme, with late-night TV host Conan O'Brien presenting a mock version of his own show and a video diary of his and Bill's 'lost weekend' in Las Vegas. 'I got too drunk, I woke up with a hooker,' O'Brien said. 'Bill got too drunk, he woke up with an Apple computer,'" Thomson reports.

In other news, Microsoft is offering a free security program. Weird.

But a senior Microsoft executive confirmed the company's plans to sell its own antivirus software, which would compete against programs from McAfee, Symantec and others.

It seems just like the ol' doctor-patient relationship: the DOCTOR DOESN'T WANT THE PATIENT TO GET BETTER. It's in the doctor's best interest NOT actually treat the patient back to health. With Microsoft, the more confused and annoyed you are, the more you'll buy "upgrades" and other nonsense they try to sell you, only to make you more confused. Uh, the Mac works out of the box, and you don't have to update and patch it constantly. And it DOESN'T get spyware, adware, viruses, or other malware. This is why the IT world hates Mac, because it works. And when something works, the people who "fix computer problems" are out of a job. It is in their best interest to keep Windows because it keeps them employed. Imagine that: there is a whole subculture of people who have jobs precisely because Windows is so shitty. There are a lot of people who are very, very thankful to Bill Gates for making such bad software and keeping their families fed and a roof over their head. Chew on that one for a while.

Funny side note: on Christmas day, my future in-laws computer had updates to install for Windows. There we were, downstairs playing GameCube, waiting to open gifts when I looked at the computer and the updates window was begging someone to update the computer. I damn near laughed out loud. Of course, this was probably because they had been putting them off for so long. I'm quite sure that Microsoft didn't actually put out an update on Christmas, but even the thought is still funny.

For those of you that are reading this and at any point in the future might be considering buying a computer, will you please, for your sake, at least CONSIDER buying a Mac. You will be glad you did.