The last Windows 10 upgrade did something I never expected would happen. It was so bad that it crippled features I relied on for day to day computing, corrupted drivers and generally made me spend hours cursing my desktop, one of my notebooks.and Microsoft for pushing an operating system upgrade that seriously harshed my computing vibe.
So, I’m about to do something very unusual, I’m switching operating system horses. Goodbye Microsoft an hello Android Chrome.
I’ve been slowly migrating to Chrome applications for the last two years, I’m very happy with Google docs and spreadsheets. Which work for me even when i travel to venues with unbelievably narrow bandwidth Internet connection (the coffee shops in the tiny berg of Rescue, CA are a perfect example of this.
Although i can always accomplish a task using Google ‘spreadsheet app, it seems to be the most affected by narrow bandwidth-- slow Internet connectivity. But6 I’m willing to live with that as part of becoming less reliant on Microsoft products.
Will I miss Microsoft Word? Not really. I have a love-hate relationship with that text creation product that goes back to its final DOS based version. What I loved about Word, were the hundreds of templates that let users with the patience to hunt the best one for a specific task. Over the last year, many equivalent templates have appeared for Google Docs.
Because I travel to some very remote locations, well away from gigabit connectivity. My most fervent wish is for standalone versions of the two most common Google applications I use, ( Docs and spreadsheets).
Absent those I could see myself easily buying an application like the old Microsoft Works program (whose files could be opened in standard Microsoft office productivity apps.
Will I miss Microsoft applications? Probably. But truth be told. I miss the XyWrite word processor And while I may be romantic, I’m unwilling to go back to button up shoes and Windows has become the 21st century equivalent of that.
It’s time to go onward and upward and my personal path goes through Chrome, not the Ios or Windows.
Microsoft has to do a much better job of testing future Windows updates for Bluetooth and other system feature incompatibility. if it doesn’t, it loses credibility with millions of users, And microsoft cannot afford that risk.. Jim Forbes on January 8, 2018.
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