Why I'm not going to choose a Windows OS for my next computer.



So alright I am not a computer geek nor am I a computer nerd. But I dislike being considered an intellectually negligible specimen with the IQ of room temperature by all those Uber geeks who have planned and executed the Windows operating system for my delectation.

Now, I have been using the Windows operating system since 1999, but it is time for me to call a halt and check out some other operating system like Mac. Let me give you the reasons for this disenchantment.

First of all, any operating system, which is not capable of asking me my serial number while loading into my computer, which makes certain that it is going to give me a signal that Windows has to be activated in one month, is not the operating system for me.

So, all right, I spend oodles of dollars and buy the original Window operating software. After it has been reloaded up on my computer, I am asked to activate it now.

By telephone.

The telephone numbers do not work at all. They have never worked at all , they will never work at all. If that is not enough to make you breathe out fire and brimstone, (by the way I'm writing from India, and the toll-free numbers given are zonked completely.) After all, I have had a month trying to activate my Windows serial number by telephone.

Then I decide to follow the next option, which is to activate the serial number online. You guessed it. The number which was stamped on the outside of the carton cannot be recognized by Microsoft, because they never generated it, did they? Instead, I asked to update my windows, which means that I leave my computer open for them to pick my IP number, address, because hey, somebody might simply have sold me a pirated copy masquerading as the genuine software. Is that supposed to be my problem if their right hands do not know what their left hands are sending out their own specified dealers.

One exact month is the deadline they give me before they shut down my operating system. 29 days after loading, I switch on my computer to see that it has shut down and it is asking me to activate Windows.

By telephone? On numbers which are not recognizable or operative?

On Internet? How on earth am I going to the Internet to switch it on, if I cannot get access to the desktop where my broadband icon has to be activated to switch on the Internet, to get to MSN to activate the Windows. Sounds very much like a fairy tale in which a sparrow has to go around asking lots of animals to do some actions like water water put out fire because it is not burning the cow will is not eating the grass who has not done some else, which I asked it to do.

Besides, why would I want to use an operating system which gives me this direction, when a notice appears upon my screen.

Keyboard does not seem to be connected or is malfunctioning. Press any key to continue.

DUH!

So, that is the reason, because I have been supposed to be a fool twice by some geniuses, I do not intend to use Windows operating system, in my new computer. This time, I am going to choose any of these systems. And I hope none of them consider me stupid enough to follow the instruction of press any key, when the keyboard is not working.

Linux / Variants

MacOS

MS-DOS

IBM OS/2 Warp

Unix / Variants