My goodbye letter to microsoft windows

Dear Microsoft windows,

We have been together for 17 years. When version 3.0 came into my life I was wowed. Then you worked and became even better in 3.x.

The next thing I knew windows 95 was in my life and I was speechless, you were a beautiful sight.

When I heard windows 98 was on the way I waited in line on the day of release, and was not disappointed. I began to fall in love . I know others laughed at you talked about your flaws, but I didn't see any flaws. You were perfect.

Then 2000 professional was suddenly there and I knew I was in love. I decided to deepen our relationship to a long term commiment and became a microsoft certified professional, and a microsoft system engineer. Things were great.

You then evolved into windows xp. Pure beauty. I don't know what happened you began to distrust me , began to check up on me with windows genuine advantage. Three times you accused me of obtaining you illegal. You became critical of the dvds I watched. You would tell me I couldn't watch them even tho I rented them. when I updated the media player I could not watch videos online anymore. It seems that with every update you became less and less stable. I had to work 2-4 hours a week on you to keep you running perfectly. Then one day you updated and rebooted without my permission which caused me to lose some personal work. How dare you.

When Vista was released I read the reviews and realized that there was no future for us. You became overpriced for the full package. More distrustful than I could imagine. Asked for more and more hardware. Even then ran slow. you are more unstable than I want to cope with. Windows I will miss you but the future of desktop operating systems is not with you.

I will be happy for I have found the future operating system. Its fast, stable, extremely easy to use, sexy and doesn't want to empty my wallet. It offers more than you ever could and its called Ubuntu 7.10

James Chadwick
theremper@yahoo.com

This was sent to Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer