Why is windows so useless?

Answer 1

Microsoft sucks because they don't care about their customer base, do not value elegance, and suffer from serious group think as if the Microsoft way were the best way or the only way -- neither of which are true. Microsoft sucks because they are a monopoly (in my opinion, provable by delving into their public financials -- again, in my opinion), and monopolies give poor customer service. Microsoft will keep sucking until they go out of business or change their practices in the face awe-inspiring management-convulsing competition -- whichever comes first.

As an example of Microsoft sucking consider shutting down a Windows computer. First one goes to "Start" (!) then tells the computer to "Shut Down" to which the computer replies "What do you want me to do" whereupon you tell it again (as if it were a 14-year old) and then it never does shut down -- it begins "logging off" (logging off? What's that? The habit of a perverted lumberjack?) It begins "logging off" in reference to a long defunct device known as the teletype which has absolutely no relevance for any user under 90. It took FOREVER for Microsoft to change this mostly because they didn't understand why the average person didn't aspire to the same level of mediocrity as they did.

Or how about adding email addresses to your "safe sender" list? Want to find that in Microsoft's email client? Just go to the most illogical place one could imagine: junk mail.

Or how about their useless "Help" menus which can't find a way to help with the simplest problem even when the same problem (and its fix) are amply attested on the Web? You need to have the Little Orphan Annie Decoder ring and learn to speak like a geek for a fighting chance of getting to the right help topic. It's as if no one at Microsoft had ever heard of a synonym.

Or how about rearranging all the menus in the latest version of Excel? What a stupid customer-non-centric thing to do. Why not rearrange all the keys on the keyboard?

And that is why Microsoft sucks.

Answer 2

Pro-Microsoft

Microsoft actually does not suck. Without it, many of things we use today would not be here such as Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and 7. We would never be able to use the internet and many of the search browsers would not exists such as Bing or Live Search. They have also helped incorporate and make many world famous games such as the Halo Series.

Anti-Microsoft

It is pretty simple. Microsoft fails miserably at its core business: providing a secure, reliable, user-friendly OS. So, why would anyone expect Microsoft to suddenly have competence in search? They were never good in search before. E.g. MSN. Vista is the best example of Microsoft's view of revolutionary change: it was the most buggy OS ever. Then, they make you pay $200 to $400 to "end the misery" with Win7. But the funny part is Win7 is really Win Vista 2.0. Same old garbage. "Choose carefully" should be their tagline. Funny note to the above post: No, Microsoft does not use its own OS. When Microsoft acquired Hotmail, Hotmail was built on solid, reliable Unix. (No blue screens of death on Unix.)

Answer 3

Numerous reasons.

1. Conflict of efficiency between space and runtime.

2. Conflict of security versus usability.

3. it can get hacked

4. it can be affected by viruses

5. it can crash

6. it is buggy

7. Numerous interface issues.

2A. In later versions of Windows, if you right click on a context menu and select edit on a file, the program does not give you sufficient permissions to actually edit the file: Permission is denied.

2B. You cannot open up a command window as an administrator to any directory other than the System directory.

Answer 4

As a pro, I have to respectfully disagree with the pro who says they don't stink. Microsoft does in many ways. They do have good software in many respects. But they regularly make very poor default setting choices, they fiddle with stuff that is not broken (like moving menus around for no apparent reason), their documentation is horrible, their support is not so good, and their go-to-market strategy has always been to push junk out the door before it is really ready, then fix it along the way (something that has worked well for them, thanks to consumers who are willing and eager to grab the latest buggy software instead of selecting a company with better QA processes). The list goes on, but in my mind these are the top reasons Microsoft stinks. (PS, love the way answers decided the word used in this question needs to be edited out...didn't know that word was so offensive as to be banned)