Tuesday, 8 January 2013

To Internet or not to Internet?

With exasperation I conclude that all but Windows choose to Internet.
Now by reading the previous line, you would think, “Oh, not another Windows fault post lying in the Internet.” Whenever you think that while reading my blog, strike that out. I will never ever post anything bad about Windows or Microsoft or XBOX. (Yes, XBOX is all capitals.)

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Why? Because that has been overused too much. Let’s rip Apple and Google to shreds, and leave the already-ripped Microsoft alone.

On-post: If you didn’t understand the first line then read on. So let’s start with a simple experiment. Take out any of your non-Microsoft based devices, including but not limited to: Your Macintosh or Chromebook, Nintendo Wii or DS, Sony PSP or PS3 and HP Touchpad or one of your ‘intelligent’ devices (iPad, iPod, iPhone).

Next, disable your internet connection, and then search for your in-built help manual. If one doesn’t exist, then that company is supposed to be a whooping failure. If in the manual, a message pops up, saying: No internet connection or something similar, congratulations. You ‘succeeded’ the experiment.
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Hi there, Beret Guy! Happy about succeeding the experiment? So you used the HP Touchpad, eh? Beret Guy comes from xkcd, if you are too lazy to open up Internet and search him up. Oh wait, you disabled Internet. You can enable it now.

If not, read the first line as ‘With exasperation I conclude that all but Windows and [OS name] choose to Internet.’ and respond in the comments.

If you must now what this means, still read on. The devices that ‘succeeded’ the experiment are great failures. I mean, what kind of company adds a manual, and says: Go online to read it? It’s better to search ‘[device name] help [what you want to do] on Google!

And Windows? Even though it has online help, if you search ‘help and support’ in Windows Search, you will get a lot of documents purified with Microsoft Word even  without an Internet connection.

(One funny thing: If Windows Vista was created with Apple’s Mac, and WV has a lot of bugs, it is evident whose fault it is. Of course, it may be the programmers’ fault, but who knows? Win7 was not made with Mac, and I have seldom encountered a glitch. Win8 too was not made with Mac, and even more no glitches.)

So when have you ever encountered this problem, and how did you solve it?

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