williab3
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I reached my limit dealing the crappy Microsoft services and products and I thought the best way for me to express my rage was to create an animated YouTube video. To organize my thoughts I thought I would start with a show outline but it got so long and it was pretty easy to read so I thought I would post it. Let me know what you think and if I forgot something. I am still in pre production.
[FONT="]1. [/FONT][FONT="]They LOVE their milk[/FONT]
[FONT="]a. [/FONT][FONT="]They charge me for Xbox live[/FONT]
[FONT="]b. [/FONT][FONT="]They charge me Xbox music[/FONT]
[FONT="]c. [/FONT][FONT="]I pay for Office 365[/FONT]
[FONT="]d. [/FONT][FONT="]For the same price as Xbox live I get Amazon Prime which includes[/FONT]
[FONT="] i. [/FONT][FONT="]Access to the Prime music library[/FONT]
[FONT="] ii. [/FONT][FONT="]Access to Prime instant video (like Netflix)[/FONT]
[FONT="] iii. [/FONT][FONT="]Discounted online shopping[/FONT]
[FONT="] iv. [/FONT][FONT="]Free 2 day shipping[/FONT]
[FONT="]2. [/FONT][FONT="]They love to sell broken stuff[/FONT]
[FONT="]a. [/FONT][FONT="]Windows 95[/FONT]
[FONT="] i. [/FONT][FONT="]You would catch so many viruses with it it was like your computer was dying from full blown AIDS[/FONT]
[FONT="]b. [/FONT][FONT="]Xbox (original)
[/FONT][FONT="]i. [/FONT][FONT="]Red ring of death[/FONT]
[FONT="]c. [/FONT][FONT="]Xbox Live[/FONT]
[FONT="] i. [/FONT][FONT="]The site goes down more than a Philippine whore[/FONT]
[FONT="]d. [/FONT][FONT="]Windows Vista[/FONT]
[FONT="]e. [/FONT][FONT="]Windows ME[/FONT]
[FONT="]3. [/FONT][FONT="]No 3rd party support[/FONT]
[FONT="]a. [/FONT][FONT="]Not enough add on's & apps for:[/FONT]
[FONT="] i. [/FONT][FONT="]Explorer[/FONT]
[FONT="] ii. [/FONT][FONT="]Office products (Word, Excel, Windows video editor etc.)[/FONT]
[FONT="] iii. [/FONT][FONT="]Phones & Tablets[/FONT]
[FONT="]4. [/FONT][FONT="]Their business plan makes no sense Stock Price (Google-$539.18, Apple-$129.96, [/FONT][FONT="]Microsoft-46.92[/FONT][FONT="])[/FONT]
[FONT="]a. [/FONT][FONT="]Microsoft is intent on pushing their tablets on us. I have one of their first tablets(Surface RT). It's a nice piece of equipment but I never use it because I have 2 laptops. For the price of one of their tablets I can get 2 pretty good laptops. [/FONT]
[FONT="] i. [/FONT][FONT="]Best Buy has an entire Windows section for Microsoft Tablets and laptops but they don't carry Windows phones. I don't know very many people that need a tablet in their personal lives but almost everyone could use a cell phone. From what I can tell Nokia phones are pretty damn good phones. If you can get one. I was going to get a Nokia 1520 from Verizon but it sold out. I mean it sold out Continent wide in less than 1 day. There was not a retailor or phone provider in North America that had 1 Nokia 1520. After that Verizon discontinued phone sales because of lack of interest. (WTF?!?).[/FONT]
[FONT="]b. [/FONT][FONT="]Phones[/FONT]
[FONT="]c. [/FONT][FONT="]Pros: I LOVE my Lumia 830 phone. Even with the lack of app support this is the best phone I have ever had.[/FONT]
[FONT="]d. [/FONT][FONT="]Cons: The 830 is not the top of the line is the 930. [/FONT]
[FONT="] i. [/FONT][FONT="]But that phone is compatible with American wireless signals so they came out with Icon. [/FONT]
[FONT="] ii. [/FONT][FONT="]But that phone isn't carried by any of the cell phone carriers so you have to buy it full price and add it your plan. [/FONT]
[FONT="] iii. [/FONT][FONT="]But most cell phone providers still don't provide service for Windows phones so you will probably have to go with Verizon or AT&T[/FONT]
[FONT="]Summary: I was ready to believe in Microsoft. I saw their stock price as a viable investment opportunity and I believe Microsoft has the tools to be a viable competitor to Google. But the more I use Microsoft services the more I hate them. I FINALLY switched my default browser from Explorer to Firefox yesterday.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]LAST STRAW RANT!!!!
[/FONT]
[FONT="]But the last straw was the Health Vault app. I have 3 apps for tracking health, Fitbit, Microsoft Health and the Health Vault. Out of all of the phone apps to track health the Health Vault is the worst. The Health Vault syncs with my Fitbit so everything I put in Fitbit can be found in the Health vault app right? WRONG!!! The Health Vault phone app only shows your current weight, BMI and blood pressure. If you want to track your progress you either need to just use the Fitbit app or log on to your Health Vault dashboard on the computer where you can get and provide data about thing like muscle density, water weight and a bunch of other stuff. But if I have to log on my computer to access that info WTF is the point of having a mobile app!!!.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Microsoft SUCKS!!![/FONT]
[FONT="]1. [/FONT][FONT="]They LOVE their milk[/FONT]
[FONT="]a. [/FONT][FONT="]They charge me for Xbox live[/FONT]
[FONT="]b. [/FONT][FONT="]They charge me Xbox music[/FONT]
[FONT="]c. [/FONT][FONT="]I pay for Office 365[/FONT]
[FONT="]d. [/FONT][FONT="]For the same price as Xbox live I get Amazon Prime which includes[/FONT]
[FONT="] i. [/FONT][FONT="]Access to the Prime music library[/FONT]
[FONT="] ii. [/FONT][FONT="]Access to Prime instant video (like Netflix)[/FONT]
[FONT="] iii. [/FONT][FONT="]Discounted online shopping[/FONT]
[FONT="] iv. [/FONT][FONT="]Free 2 day shipping[/FONT]
[FONT="]2. [/FONT][FONT="]They love to sell broken stuff[/FONT]
[FONT="]a. [/FONT][FONT="]Windows 95[/FONT]
[FONT="] i. [/FONT][FONT="]You would catch so many viruses with it it was like your computer was dying from full blown AIDS[/FONT]
[FONT="]b. [/FONT][FONT="]Xbox (original)
[/FONT][FONT="]i. [/FONT][FONT="]Red ring of death[/FONT]
[FONT="]c. [/FONT][FONT="]Xbox Live[/FONT]
[FONT="] i. [/FONT][FONT="]The site goes down more than a Philippine whore[/FONT]
[FONT="]d. [/FONT][FONT="]Windows Vista[/FONT]
[FONT="]e. [/FONT][FONT="]Windows ME[/FONT]
[FONT="]3. [/FONT][FONT="]No 3rd party support[/FONT]
[FONT="]a. [/FONT][FONT="]Not enough add on's & apps for:[/FONT]
[FONT="] i. [/FONT][FONT="]Explorer[/FONT]
[FONT="] ii. [/FONT][FONT="]Office products (Word, Excel, Windows video editor etc.)[/FONT]
[FONT="] iii. [/FONT][FONT="]Phones & Tablets[/FONT]
[FONT="]4. [/FONT][FONT="]Their business plan makes no sense Stock Price (Google-$539.18, Apple-$129.96, [/FONT][FONT="]Microsoft-46.92[/FONT][FONT="])[/FONT]
[FONT="]a. [/FONT][FONT="]Microsoft is intent on pushing their tablets on us. I have one of their first tablets(Surface RT). It's a nice piece of equipment but I never use it because I have 2 laptops. For the price of one of their tablets I can get 2 pretty good laptops. [/FONT]
[FONT="] i. [/FONT][FONT="]Best Buy has an entire Windows section for Microsoft Tablets and laptops but they don't carry Windows phones. I don't know very many people that need a tablet in their personal lives but almost everyone could use a cell phone. From what I can tell Nokia phones are pretty damn good phones. If you can get one. I was going to get a Nokia 1520 from Verizon but it sold out. I mean it sold out Continent wide in less than 1 day. There was not a retailor or phone provider in North America that had 1 Nokia 1520. After that Verizon discontinued phone sales because of lack of interest. (WTF?!?).[/FONT]
[FONT="]b. [/FONT][FONT="]Phones[/FONT]
[FONT="]c. [/FONT][FONT="]Pros: I LOVE my Lumia 830 phone. Even with the lack of app support this is the best phone I have ever had.[/FONT]
[FONT="]d. [/FONT][FONT="]Cons: The 830 is not the top of the line is the 930. [/FONT]
[FONT="] i. [/FONT][FONT="]But that phone is compatible with American wireless signals so they came out with Icon. [/FONT]
[FONT="] ii. [/FONT][FONT="]But that phone isn't carried by any of the cell phone carriers so you have to buy it full price and add it your plan. [/FONT]
[FONT="] iii. [/FONT][FONT="]But most cell phone providers still don't provide service for Windows phones so you will probably have to go with Verizon or AT&T[/FONT]
[FONT="]Summary: I was ready to believe in Microsoft. I saw their stock price as a viable investment opportunity and I believe Microsoft has the tools to be a viable competitor to Google. But the more I use Microsoft services the more I hate them. I FINALLY switched my default browser from Explorer to Firefox yesterday.[/FONT]
[FONT="]
[/FONT]
[FONT="]LAST STRAW RANT!!!!
[/FONT]
[FONT="]But the last straw was the Health Vault app. I have 3 apps for tracking health, Fitbit, Microsoft Health and the Health Vault. Out of all of the phone apps to track health the Health Vault is the worst. The Health Vault syncs with my Fitbit so everything I put in Fitbit can be found in the Health vault app right? WRONG!!! The Health Vault phone app only shows your current weight, BMI and blood pressure. If you want to track your progress you either need to just use the Fitbit app or log on to your Health Vault dashboard on the computer where you can get and provide data about thing like muscle density, water weight and a bunch of other stuff. But if I have to log on my computer to access that info WTF is the point of having a mobile app!!!.[/FONT]