Why Does Windows Still Suck?

Mark Morford has written an excellent article for SF Gate pondering why it is that people continue to use Windows. He makes some excellent points and I jumped ship once OS X was released and haven’t looked back since (finally a Unix destop that does everything I want it to, not to mention that the hardware is great).

“Why Does Windows Still Suck?”
Mark Morford, SF Gate, Friday, February 4, 2005

Mark writes:

Here, then, is my big obvious question: Why the hell do people put up with this? Why is there not some massive revolt, some huge insurrection against Microsoft? Why is there not a huge contingent of furious users stomping up to Seattle with torches and scythes and crowbars, demanding the Windows Frankenstein monster be sacrificed at the altar of decent functionality and an elegant user interface?

There is nothing else like this phenomenon in the entire consumer culture. If anything else performed as horribly as Windows, and on such a global scale, consumers would scream bloody murder and demand their money back and there would be some sort of investigation, class-action litigation, a demand for Bill Gates’ cute little geeky head on a platter.