one of my big beefs with windows 10 is they took away the classic games and put in some shiny new games. but the new games came with a price, unless you subscribed to their premium package of games, you couldn't play any of their so-called free games unless you watched a few commercials. have i ever mentioned that i hate windows 10?
the new shiny games are kinda cool but those fucking commercials were driving me crazy, not to mention the fact that microsoft was monitoring me every time i played a game and deciding what commercials to blast me with after monitoring everything else i had been doing and reading all my hotmail messages. and that brings up another annoyance with windows 10, it reconfigured my hotmail account and i couldn't read my fucking mail!!! the inbox would say 10 new messages but there was nothing there! if i went to my sent file and then back to the inbox, i might just get lucky and find my messages but it was hit and miss. after some monkeying around i discovered that outlook/hotmail had activated some "focus" tool that took it upon itself to hide my messages.
i had told my kids about these problems but they didn't share my sense of urgency. dear old dad not getting old classic microsoft games and his free email acting up didn't register on their urgency index. i had to fix these problems myself and fix them i did. i found and turned off the focus bullshit and then installed the old games from windows 7. the fruit of my loins are in for a surprise next time they request funding from the rosewater foundation.
for some funny reason i have absolutely no problem with google looking over my shoulder and invading my privacy. google answers all my questions and provides me with excellent directions whenever i need to find an address. and i'm now using google "sheets" rather than microsoft's excel. i have excel on the old computer but have to access microsoft's cloud to use it on the new toy. so far google sheets fit my needs very well. and i haven't used facebook for a nanosecond on the new toy.
in summation:
google - good
microsoft - bad
facebook - bad
Well I'm glad you've solved your computer problems and it's always a great feeling to solve them yourself without some geek typing on your keyboard. But what do you use spreadsheets for? I thought you'd retired.
ReplyDeletei have retired from the cracker factory but i still fritz around with other stuff. i love numbers!
DeleteGlad all is well, Mr. Rosewater. I just had to start using Microsoft products again at the new job and I'm not very impressed. I wish we just use everything Google because they are good like you mentioned. Take care.
ReplyDeleteyes, google should be taking point on the trip to mars, not that loser musk.
DeleteGlad you got your games again! Spreadsheets always give me a headache! I know "how" to use them, and have uses Excel and SPSS a lot for my research, but every time I use either, I have a steep relearning curve.... Their use never becomes natural for me for some reason.
ReplyDeletei'm sure that i've only scratched the surface with excel, it can probably do all sorts of wonderful things that i'll never figure out now that i'm boycotting microsoft.
DeleteGo jump in the "Pond"
ReplyDeleteYou Asshole
i don't remember you seeing me or me seeing you.
DeleteHave you son reformat the computer and put Win7 on it.
ReplyDeleteI too like a lot about Google, but I'll never be okay with being targeted for ads. Where’s it going to go; when a person looks up pancreatic cancer, is he going to start being targeted for funeral home ads?
ReplyDeletei get a lot of targeted ads when the ad blocker is turned off, which is most of the time. some of the targeted ads are entertaining and some are annoying.
DeleteHappy Friday, Mr. Rosewater.
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