Even Bill Gates seems to hate Windows

I came across this interesting post today, in which an email from Bill Gates explains his frustration with trying to download a program from the Microsoft site — and it really does sound like a painful experience, complete with the usual scary messages, pointless questions, etc.

Here’s just a taster — it’s worth reading the whole thing:

So I went to Windows update. Windows Update decides I need to download a bunch of controls. (Not) just once but multiple times where I get to see weird dialog boxes.

Doesn’t Windows update know some key to talk to Windows?

Then I did the scan. This took quite some time and I was told it was critical for me to download 17megs of stuff.

This is after I was told we were doing delta patches to things but instead just to get 6 things that are labeled in the SCARIEST possible way I had to download 17meg.

So I did the download. That part was fast. Then it wanted to do an install. This took 6 minutes and the machine was so slow I couldn’t use it for anything else during this time.

What the heck is going on during those 6 minutes? That is crazy. This is after the download was finished.

Then it told me to reboot my machine. Why should I do that? I reboot every night — why should I reboot at that time?

Hey, Bill, if you’re that frustrated with the Windows experience have you ever thought of switching to a Mac?

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