Microsoft = Idiots

"Size Does Matter"

 

How many of you use Microsoft Office to do work? Oh, I think if I got a show

of hands, it would be plenty. Unless you're a janitor or a despatch boy,

there's no escaping Microsoft's ubiquitous office productivity suite. But

here's my problem with it, as I do with most Microsoft's products... it's

just not very well designed. It's not well made. It's not very well thought

out. Just look at the picture above... 153.3MB update. Wow. I mean if this

was an operating system update, I could still understand... but this is a

program I do spellcheck, word count and type my articles in. Ok, I edit a

few monthly charts on Excel too... and WHICH OF THESE PROGRAMS NEED 150+

MEGABYTES of stability and performance update?!!!

 

This is the Microsoft Office 2008 update dated 24 June 2008. And if I

recall, the last update was done only last month. As usual, when I fired up

Ms Word, I was asked by the Office AutoUpdate agent to perform this

"critical" update (dated Wednesday, May 14, 2008) that's about 180MB large.

 

And the end result, you know what? That's more then 330MB of updating in a

little more than 40 days. That's a third of a gigabyte... for a program that

I use to type and do spellcheck for.

 

So I am guessing if I don't perform this "critical" update, my Macbook will:

 

1. Spontaneously combust, spewing it's innards like thousands of

little shrapnels penetrating my eyeballs, piercing my lungs and into my

throat, so eventually leaving me in a CRITICAL condition, I can't scream for

help or see the telephone to dial 999.

2. Will stop doing spellcheck.

3. Give inaccurate word count.

4. Give hackers access to modify my Word document, edit them with

profanities and save it over the original file. So when I sent it to my

editor, I will be CRITICALLY embarassed.

5. Excel will no longer show the rows and columns (or numbers)

6. When you try to open the Ms Word program, it sends your credit card

information to a penis enlarging company and automatically puts you on an

appointment for next week

7. Install a "Start" button on the left bottom corner of the Mac OS X

desktop.

8. Have 330MB more space, than before I decided to update the f***ing

Microsoft Office crappy suite of programs.

 

I think no.8 hits the point I'm trying to say like a bullseye. I can't

believe a non-operating system software can need so much updating to do the

simple task of just preparing documents, spreadsheets and presentations for

work or student assignments.

 

I long for the times gone by when Word was simply a powerful word

processor... not a gateway to security vulnerabilities. It's supposed to an

offline program, a word processor/spreadsheet, why is it vulnerable to

attacks? It's meant to be used offline. It's not an email client or a web

browser!

 

You know what, I think Microsoft Office... does do something really well....

they really suck well.

Done