The “Break it Down” Blog

Was reading Joel Spolsky’s blog, specifically his rantings on the absolute retardation that is the Windows Vista/Office ‘07 boxes… yes the physical plastic boxes this software comes in. If you haven’t gotten a chance to try and open these boxes before, before you go “Retard, how hard could a box be?”, actually try and open one. It’s completely unreasonable how complex this box is and what a hodge-podge you have to do to get it open.

Does a pretty good job summarizing Microsoft’s belief of development.

On a side note, I loved this quote from Joel, that so far everyone I’ve talked to and work with agree on:

I’ve been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system — it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes. Whenever anyone asks, my advice is to stay with Windows XP (and to purchase new systems with XP preinstalled).