Conspiracies Exposed!

Ok not really. It's been a long time coming, but this isnt it. THIS post is about Microsoft. First tho, some things about my favorite topic: Me.

Its no secret having read some of my earlier blogs that Im no stranger to the windows family. My dad worked at IBM, I was trained on the Microsoft platform and products, DOS, then Windows- so, I reference them often. Which says nothing about what I think of them as a company or their political stance or any of that. Al that means, is that I run their software and It gets the job done at least to my meager standards. Since that time, my OS library has increased and ive explored other platforms, been trained on other systems and learned much much more about the field I've chosen and in some cases, yes I have found better solutions away from the Microsoft umbrella. Still tho, I keep a windows machine in current and in good working order. Just in case.

I came across an article about the windows search agent being forced to desktops during a Microsoft update regardless of whether or not you turned that featured off. The effect is that the windows desktop agent gets downloaded and run and starts cataloging (indexing) the contents of your C: after a windows update. Unfortunate, especially if you elected 'no'. What Im concerned about is the frequency that people said this was another instance of Microsoft flexing its all powerful muscles and not caring about the customers it continually punches in the head and gut. I have a hard time following that line of conspiracy theorism. (Yes. I made that up right on the spot.)

Microsoft is a company. Companies like money and they get most of it from us. Consumers. No matter how saturated the playing field is with their product I dont think any company that has private sector sales can afford to piss off their client base. Maybe some of them, but certainly not all of them and definitely not consistently. It might seem like sometimes all of a particular group of people dont like a specific change, but 1) it probably wasnt done intentionally, 2) if it was, it was probably for another reason that doesnt involve tweaking our collective noses and 3) the group that was offended is probably not the general public who wouldnt notice most of what goes on 'under the hood' anyway.

Some companies do have it out for you. I dont know that Microsoft is one of those. But from a purely down to earth stand point consider the following. No customers, for whatever reason means no money. And while bill gates alone has more money than God, he's not cranking out software by himself. If he's not afraid of us for that reason, he should be.

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