Jeff Reifman writes on Microsoft, innovation, and Windows.

Show of hands: who’s fed up with Windows?

I began using Microsoft products 23 years ago, at age 11, and I worked for Microsoft from 1991 to 1999 as a technology manager. For many years, I was a Microsoft loyalist. While aware of Microsoft?s shortcomings, I always believed that the Soft did its best to improve products over time, as it did with Windows XP. But recently, I?ve had a crisis of faith. Perhaps I?ve rebooted Windows one too many times.

His experiences with Windows are perhaps a little on the extreme side. I mean, I certainly have seen all of them, but not all at the same time. However, he does have a well-developed argument. Microsoft ought to pay attention.

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