Windows blows!

That's it. Its official. I H A T E windows!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You'd think a company that can hire 50,000 of the brightest, most intelligent, talented programmers on the planet can come up with something better that this.

Oh yeah. Just got a brand new computer at work. 1.83 ghz HP core duo laptop.
Just your normal average business laptop.

It actually doesn't as crash often as the previous ME machine. So I've finally gotten the opportunity to savor the entire windows experience.

1. Why does this state of the art machine take longer to startup, go to sleep, and wake up from sleep than my 5 year old 800 mhz iMac?

2. Popups! There are freaking popup screens everywhere! And I'm not talking about browser popup ads. The system popups and tells you stuff that you don't need to know like RIGHT NOW. Run a program. Splash screen cover the middle of the screen and blots out everything else. Can't make it go away until its done.
Popup telling, me that there's no wireless network available. Hello, I just push the button that turns off the wireless network. The blue light turned off. I KNOW there's no wireless network.

3. Plug and play. In windows, this is only implied. Its not a promise.

4. Making sure that youre security software is uptodate to the very minute, or else! Kena'd first virus a few days ago. There goes a few hours of my life spent cleaning it up.

5. Did I mention popups! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

6. Why do I need to click on the Start button to turn off my computer?

7. Calculator. Its the same freaking calculator from windows95.