I love Microsoft, I want Bill Gates to be my
friend so I can just give him a hug. I don’t want his money, I don’t want
anything else … just a hug. If some of his money fell into my pocket I’d not be
sad about it, and might think about returning it, but that’s not the point of
this post. I love everything about Microsoft, it’s humble beginnings of two
friends wanting to use their shared knowledge to create something, literally
anything. I love that their first big break happened cause Bill (he’s my friend
I can call him Bill) told them they had a thing but they didn’t have a thing
and they then had to create said thing to finish the deal. Talk about fake it
until you make it huh?! I use the office suite daily in both my work life and
home life, I’m actually using it now. I can’t imagine my life without Microsoft.
I think Indesign is a fancy publisher application. I have the original X-box in
my room and still use it on occasion when I can’t sleep. I also have the X-box
360 but admit I haven’t spent my money on the X-box 1 yet. Mostly cause the
adult in me thinks it’s silly to pay for a new system when I haven’t really
turned on the old system in many many many months, stupid adult me. I have
always had a PC never a MAC and that’s not just because my father might disown
me if I did. I just love the user interface, I love the compatibility I love
all of it. I even have … brace yourself friends… the Windows Phone. This is my
second Windows Phone actually, after my beloved Blackberry bit the dust one
late August day. Confession time … I really really really really really really
really really really really …. really miss my Blackberry. Really. Frankly the
Blackberry was great but the track ball kept breaking. I replaced it about 15 times
then said screw this but I admit that the track ball was the only thing wrong
with that phone. When it was time to leap to a new system I leaped to the Windows
Phone via Lumina products. I loved it. I loved how all my devices were suddenly
connected, I didn’t have to import anything just put in my username and
password and boom a phone was born a short time later. It was so simple and
fantastic. It literally did everything I needed it to do ….. I loved it. To
tell you the truth I can’t remember why I got rid of that one for the current phone
I have. Which is a newer version of the Windows Phone. I tell you all this in a
preface to my letter to Microsoft explaining why I feel we need to finally part
ways. It makes me sad, but as you will see below, I think it’s time. Please
Bill don’t hate me, that would devastate me should we ever cross paths in the
future.
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Dear Microsoft,
I hope this finds you doing well, I hope this
finds you hard at work so that generations behind me won’t have to write a
similar letter. I love my windows phone. I love how it connects to my office
account, my one drive is great (tho I don’t use it the way others do), I kind
of even like the e-mail program, but get super annoyed when you guys decide to
update my ap and my settings go back to keeping my e-mail for 6 weeks then it
will vanish off the face of the planet – not cool guys. Who the hell only needs
6 weeks worth of e-mails? Who is that person? Or when you guys update A and it screws up B
only to have another update fix both but screw up C. How about you just leave
some stuff alone sometimes? Microsoft Edge has an issue with Pintress ? What?
The only reason I know it’s Microsoft Edge is cause when you tell Edge to open
the same page in Explorer it opens just fine. So what’s up with that !? I get
an e-mail that you guys are changing the way you can make a screen shot or a
snip. Really? That’s the priority of the hour at Microsoft. What you guys
choose to prioritize drives me insane. For a few weeks there I couldn’t open a
PDF without first downloading some 3rd party AP that requires me to
download the PDF to the phone then open the ap then see the PDF. Really!?
Seriously!? I mean the ENTIRE WORLD IS USING PDF EVERYWHERE … and I’m over here
trying to chisel something out of stone.
A few
months ago, I was going to a show, got my tickets digitally sent to me and I
had to use PDF to open the tickets up with. I sent them to my friend on another
system so that if I couldn’t open them she’d be able to. That was seriously
something I was concerned about. I’d have been very angry had I not been able
to see this show cause my stupid phone couldn’t open a PDF. (Side note: I
understand this has now been corrected but yeah for a week or so was super
annoying). How about allowing me to choose not to do that update …is that something
we can talk about ? No … ok that’s cool, I guess.
What I don’t love and this is not really a
slight on you, tho I guess that it is, is the fact that the rest of the planet
could care less about my Microsoft phone. In a world moving to Aps the fact that
you guys are so behind in that aspect really screws up my day to day life. My office has an employee interface where you
can download the ap and log in and see vacation time, news, etc., but guess
what …. Not available for Windows Phone. There’s also this really
awesome thing at my bank where I can make deposits from my house (cause I’m
kind a lazy about that) check your balances, freeze cards if you think it’s
lost or stolen but guess what else … Not available on Windows Phone. I’m
not even talking about fun stuff yet. Dragon Con has a yearly ap that they
create for the convention where you can see the schedule, news and
announcements, changes in the schedule etc., but guess what …. Not
Available on Windows Phone. Disney World for instance has a similar ap
that you can link to your bracelet and change your fast passes, make
reservations, etc but guess what … Not available for Windows Phone.
That is why Microsoft I think it’s time to
part ways, I’ve held to this device for far longer than I should have. I have
recently received some money I wasn’t expecting and have decided to spend some
of it on a new phone. My only criteria for this new phone is that it not be a
windows phone and that it must have the Type C connection cause I have a
billion of those wires and I’m not replacing them all again. That’s it. Those
are the two things I’m basing this very important decision on. I don’t really want
to abandon my Windows phone, but I’m afraid that the decision is out of my
hands. I don’t see this situation correcting itself in the future and I don’t
see that you are very invested in correcting it for the world. I mean there are
reports that you are thinking of abandoning aps all together for some web based
system. Really?! It’s like you guys see the rest of the world going left and
are like nope we are going to go in a zig zag patter towards the left instead.
So which phone am I abandoning you for …. That I haven’t decided yet. Notice BTW when I searched for a picture showing many phones various types the one not shown. They are all basically the same now it just depends on the interface really. I guess if I broke the phone today … I’d go with Samsung, likely the 9+. I just don’t see myself going all insane and going with an Iphone mostly cause I’m not a fan of their interface, their clientele, and their inability to really connect with non MAC products. I think if I go that route then in less than say 5 years I’ll be in the same boat I’m in now. The Samsung I’m familiar with because I have friends that have it, so I like the interface and other than the “google” connection it seems to function very similar to my Windows phone. Plus if I buy it through Microsoft it comes with the Microsoft ap installed which makes it work very similar to the phone I used to have …. Giving me the best of both worlds, at least until the world decides to take the Microsoft phone seriously. Sigh ….. wish that were today.
Thanks,
Marcy (a good friend of Bill’s)
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So readers what phone do you have?! Do you
have similar frustrations?! Everyone has an opinion on the phone they have or
the one they think you should have … let’s hear it!
Marcy (@beaslma)
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