Micro-UN-Soft

I trust from you reading the title of this story that you may have the idea that for some reason I'm not all that pleased with Microsoft Corporation dealing with the upgrading of my computer system to Windows 10.  If that is what you are thinking then, surprise, surprise, you are absolutely accurate, dear reader.

I have to tell you that I am completely unhappy and not satisfied at all from changing my older computer operating system by going up to Windows 10 a relatively short time ago. I really had no choice unless I wanted to spend some dollars down the road moving from my lower Windows system to Windows 10. The "freebie" operating system that was made available by Microsoft was just changed a short time ago by me. One needs to spend money if one wants to upgrade at this time. It was given away at no cost for quite a period of time by Microsoft to its end users.

I made the decision to go forward quite late as you may recall i.e. just before the new upgraded Windows software had to be paid for. I had lots of trouble updating as well. At that time, to be blunt about it, I almost decided not to move forward with the Windows new system with all the problems I had in the updating. Surprisingly, even with all the problems that I had at that time in upgrading, somehow the software system seemed to change and started working when it could not do so before.

How marvelous for me, right? As I wrote before, I did not get much help from either Microsoft technical people or the representatives from the computer company for the computer that I had purchased a number of years ago. Shockingly, the software system finally went through the downloading right to the end unlike all of my other downloads when the unloading seem to stop just before the end of the downloading process and died.

What a complete mess the upgrading system seems to be. Who knows, maybe it's just my computer system and not anybody else's. All that I can tell you is that going online and downloading the new Windows 10 programs is so objectionable I just can't stand it anymore. It was such a mess in doing so that I found out that supposedly no one in positions of power believed that the specific, old Windows PC that I was using and supposedly upgrading could be upgraded at all.  Gee, it meant that I would have to go out and buy a completely new computer.  What a great position for the manufacturer to have!

Of course, the result of the downloading the software had its own problems. How many hours did it take you, dear reader, to download the system in the first place onto your computer? One hour, two hours, four hours or even more? Seriously, the amount of software that needs downloading is a lot but not so bad. However, the time to do so seems to take forever before it goes on to one's system for reasons that are unknown to me.  And then the time to upgrade afterwards... that takes a very long time too.

What have I had so far? Naturally I have had one of our family's first download of the software that downloaded the first system on to our computers, at no cost of course. Wasn't that nice of Microsoft to make us feel so good financially? Then, we seemed to have had a number of loads as well for improvements to the original system. Naturally, I expect to have some more that we will have to accept whether we want to or not. As I said up above, that downloading messed up my operating system for a good period of time.

I probably spent the good part of several days trying to figure out a way to download the system in the first place to get it operating. Notwithstanding all of my conversations with the service people from the suppliers, I got nowhere with them.  Well that's not quite true. I was told that an easy solution was just to purchase a new computer. Now wasn't that helpful to the manufacturer of a product that seems to be reducing in number the size of people purchasing the product.

I'm not going to go through all the misery that I experienced other than to say it was a horrible one. I must admit that I have had to upgrade products before but I have never had such a horrific experience that I had this time.

In all honesty, I almost came to the point of transferring my system back to my old computing system that would run my daily work. I did not feel the need, with all the problems, for this "upgraded" new operation and for which I had nothing but misery.  However, I did not do so because I figured that my older Windows system was getting very obsolete very quickly.

I could talk a lot more about how horrible this operation was in the past and how horrible it is when it has to be upgraded these days. However, why bother. I'm sure that you all, dear readers, have similar situations.

There are a lot more matters that I could criticize about this new Windows 10 product that came out. However, I don't think it makes any real sense for me to do so because I don't have a practical, alternative software product.

All that I will be when I am online with this new Micro-UN-Soft product is disappointed!