Something from the 90s.
Somewhere around here I’ve still got the magazine with these songs...
Nine-tenths of a gig,
Biggest ever seen,
Gosh, this program’s big— MS Word 15!
Comes on ten CDs,
And requires—damn!
Word is fine, but jeez—
60 megs of RAM?!
Oh! Microsoft, Microsoft,
Bloatware all the way!
I’ve sat here installing Word
Since breakfast yesterday!
Oh! Microsoft, Microsoft,
Moderation, please.
Guess you hadn’t noticed:
Four-gig drives don’t grow on trees!
That’s pretty good. :) You probably remember and made note of this too... We finally started to get a handle on in and get a slight boost ahead of MS in hardware speed when they finally realized that BUSS speeds were holding back and retarding the speed capabilities of processors and increased BUSS speeds.
I was elated to see speed finally increasing and beating out the MS bloat and it was fantastic for a change. Well it didn’t take them long to go throw a wrench in the works and take even this breakthrough advantage away and slow it right back down again. For some reason all these years MS has had the misconception that increased speeds were designed just for them and never for the user who actually owned the machine.
In this way users have never actually owned the machine they paid good money for outright... MS has always arrogantly self appointed themselves stewards and proxy owners/managers over every box they were loaded on. It’s always been like buying a new pickup truck but having the maker of that truck fully dictate where you can haul stuff from and to, and what you can and cannot haul.
That truck never does actually belong to the person who paid good money for it. You only made a onetime rental payment and the manufacturer can change the rental agreement at will throughout the life of that vehicle forever. For decades now this greedy arrogance is the “very well earned” source of my hatred for MS. They are playing everyone for a fool and we are ignorant enough to let them so they keep doing it. :(