# Fuck you, Microsoft, once again

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-microsoft-once-again/555015>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 25, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-microsoft-once-again/555015 "2010-09-25T16:20:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
**Page:** 5

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**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-microsoft-once-again/555015/81 "2011-02-25T23:39:27Z")

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Scandisk shot my pa.  
In Reno, no less.

I wonder why?

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**Author:** ![Doughbag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Doughbag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doughbag)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-microsoft-once-again/555015/82 "2011-02-26T01:44:34Z")

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WOW!!! 10 years running a PC without reinstalling it or updating his browser…

Since the car was mentioned, that would be in car terms:  
-never doing a oilchange in your car,  
-never change the tyres  
-never change the airfilter  
-never change the wipers  
-never checking the tyres for airpressure  
-never emptying the ashtray

…but drive with this car every day.  
The result would be, however much you may like/love/adore or want to use this car - it ain’t driving no more, cos it is broke.

…properly still using Norton 2000 with a definition signature from 09.10.2001 to combat brand new spyware & Viruses from 2010/2011, because it was such a great product. That’s why norton made all those new ones every other year.

I’ve got no idea whats so special about an 10 year brower is, that NO other browser can do. Maybe in can view webpages in a way that no other browser has never ever achieved ever again, even with 10 years in developments of browsers.

But I really can not believe, that Microsoft hires anyone to rewrite Scandisk for this one person, to delete his browser… after 10 years.

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**Author:** ![Alpine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpine/32/17813_2.png) [@Alpine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpine)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-microsoft-once-again/555015/83 "2011-02-26T02:09:37Z")

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Can Scandisk detect and destroy bad zombie sectors?

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**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-microsoft-once-again/555015/84 "2011-02-26T04:56:23Z")

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> [@Doughbag](#):
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> …properly still using Norton 2000 with a definition signature from 09.10.2001 to combat brand new spyware & Viruses from 2010/2011, because it was such a great product. That’s why norton made all those new ones every other year.

Everything changed on 9/11.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-microsoft-once-again/555015/85 "2011-02-26T10:03:22Z")

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> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#):
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> Everything changed on 9/11.

Am I going to hell for laughing at that?

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**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-microsoft-once-again/555015/86 "2011-02-26T10:42:22Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> Am I going to hell for laughing at that?

If you do, you’ll have company.

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**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-microsoft-once-again/555015/87 "2011-02-26T13:36:05Z")

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Paraphrasing “The Big Bang Theory”:

Maybe if Bill Gates didn’t spend so much time worrying about starving orphans in Africa, his products wouldn’t have so many bugs.

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