Don't you get tired...?
Don't you get tired of having Microsoft products come out that are not compatible with their own other products? Or that have problems big enough to drive a truck through in other ways? And never knowing before you install if you're going to be able to use anything else you have on your system? I wish I could bill for all the time I spend figuring it out when I upgrade. I'd be rich.
We made the opposite choice. We stayed with Office 2000 rather than moving to Office 2002 because it was just to costly in time and effort to figure out exactly was causing the problems (and there were many, many problems) when we upgraded to XP.
I get tired of getting what's supposed to be a final version, then ending up paying to be Microsoft'sbeta tester until 3 or 4 patches down the road, they finally have a product that does what they claim it does.
And of course, by that time, they have the next version ready to be shipped and the cycle starts all over again.
I've decided for personal use, I will use the oldest version until the time comes that I can no longer run it for whatever reason.
At my house, we use use the 602 PC Suite on the kid's computers for schoolwork. It's free, we don't have to buy a separate license for each kid, and it's pretty much compatible with Microsoft Office.
And I'm learning Linux, just to give myself a choice when it comes to operating systems. I'm pretty much an applications person, but it seems worth it to me to just have a choice.
I'm not a Microsoft hater - I like a lot of what comes with the office suite and operating system. But I'm just tired of all the crap you have to go through to get it to work right, and the price we have to pay to keep up with all the changes.
Of course, there's always Apple -- and it too is sounding better and better to me.
Thanks for the place to vent!
