April 10, 2008

How Vista changed my blogging habits

My company switched out my laptop this past Tuesday. My new laptop has the new Microsoft operating system "Vista." Along with the switch to Vista, this laptop also boasts the newer Microsoft Word 2007. I was previously working in Word 2003. My first duty this morning was to create a shell document for a proposal. This is typically a half-hour process, one hour at the most depending on the complexity of the request for proposal specifications. This morning's document took just short of four hours to create and I was simply not able to accomplish some of the things I would normally have done prior to moving the document on to the team of writers. So, needless to say, I am late with today's blog post and expect a degree of lateness going forward indefinitely. This should be fun for a while. I must give kudos to Microsoft. They continually find new ways to frustrate us all. And yet we keep going back to them for more abuse. There must be a psychological terms for this insanity. MSOCHD? (That would be Microsoft Obsessive Compulsive Hatred Disorder)

2 comments:

  1. Switch to mac and you'll be much happier!

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  2. abby: Oh, if only I could. The firm I work for supplies my laptop, so I don't really have a choice.

    On the upside, they provide me with some awesome software (other than the mandatory Microsoft suite). Our clientelle demands that the vast majority of our proposals be submitted in Microsoft Office products, so we don't really have the final say.

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