Microsoft, Change, and You
“I am Barack Obama and I approve this message” –Barack Obama
Just as Obama’s campaign for change continues to prevail through both his election as the first African American President in the history of the United States, as well as his political agenda to make way for health care reform, Microsoft edges there way back into the Market with Windows 7 through change.
Change throughout the years for Microsoft has always seemed to be dealt with by adding on to the GUI (Graphical User Interface) and adding some features that they thought might be useful to the average Joe or Sally type of computer user. However change as done throughout Microsoft’s history has been both good and bad. I am sure many computer users remember the days of Windows 95 and the amazing graphical interface that it had.
A start button was just the beginning for Microsoft it seemed, but it was also a beginning of several annoyances. Windows 3.1 for instance, lockups occurred less frequently!
YaY for Windows 95 as well as Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows Me making us press ctrl-alt-delete to reboot our locked up computers and restart our machines for every single thing that we installed. However as we progressed through the ages and ages of hardware, one thing became certain, so did Microsoft and the ease of use of its software and its annoyances. Alright maybe not so much for Windows ME, but we noticed that some annoyances were replaced with another. At least until XP was released then other annoyances were replaced with an even bigger annoyance in the next Operating System. An example would be XP’s low level of security, which prompted Vista developers to create UAC, a program that prompts you millions of times before you can actually install something (while it can be turned off, why can we not just be the administrator of our own computers?).
Great article Genaveve.
I look forward to the next part regarding Windows 7 installation as i have just purchased a retail Windows 7 Premium from work on a staff discount
All i need now is a new HDD and i’ll be ready to go.
A 5770 wouldn’t go a miss either though.