Microsoft's Worse, Worser and Worst

I've had a ton of homework lately. Every single one of my classes decided to assign a huge project for this week. In fact, I would have done this post last Monday if my computer didn't freeze because I was trying to manhandle Microsoft's worst program ever.

First though I should give Microsoft credit for making Power Point. It's awesome and I'll probably use it in a future career. Exel isn't too bad either.

Now that I've gotten that taken care of, let's look at Microsoft's worse. (Yes I know that's not proper grammer, I'm trying to copy Keith Olberman.)

Microsoft Word: Actually, Word comes in handy. Its spell check has saved my school reports, its just about the only application that lets me do accents, and its really the only thing out there more advanced than notepad. However, there are things it sucks at. Auto spelling correction can be a pain, especially when I'm doing Spanish homework on it. Often times it labels my sentences as fragments, even when they're not. Adjusting margins is agrivating. The list of little messups goes on.

And the worser:

Microsoft Outlook: Actually, I wasn't planning on having a worser, but I decided to take a look at my applications to see if there were any programs I wasn't aware exsisted. And there was. When I first opened Outlook to see what it did, an error message came up. Not surprising, since it was the 2003 version and I've never used it once since then. The error asked if it could re-open in "safety mode." I clicked no, since I really didn't care all that much. However, it didn't take no as, "don't bother, close down please," but as, "no, try to re-open in a mode that we know doesn't work." So the same error message came up again. This time I clicked yes, I can see patterns. Outlook tried to re-open in safety mode this time, but another error message came up. This one asked to download some software to fix the problem. I clicked no, and got the program trying to re-open itself again. Apparently I'm not that good with patterns. Going back through the error messages again I clicked yes to the download and, well it started downloading. I canceled the downloading and the thing finally shut down. The only thing worse than giving up is to come up with thirteen programs to fix the first. And forcing you to download them.

And the worst: (Though I have to admit, Outlook was pretty bad.)

Microsoft Movie Maker: Face it. Apple has the best movie editing software. Don't try to fight it. Microsoft Movie Maker is a sad attempt at being able to do something. It was pretty simple what I wanted: Make a slide show, add subtitles, maybe put in some music. MMM does allow you to pretty easily add pictures or movie clips and move them around. The only problem came to when your movie was done, saved on your flashdrive, and when you take it to class you realize that none of your pictures are showing up because it's trying to find them in: Darbyvernon/MyDocuments/Notes/Spanishproject. Then the subtitles are a problem because you can't actually add them. You can add a big title right in the smak middle of everything, but you can't move it to somewhere where it's not getting in the way. My computer froze before I could indulge in the horrors of adding a soundtrack. This all took two hours by the way. The next day I turned my movie into a Power Point. It took 30 min.

And there you have it, Microsoft's worst programs in the world!

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What are the good and bad points about Microsoft's business strategies?
Hi, I'm working on a project for school, and could use as much info as possible. I need to know about some of the business strategies of Bill Gates and Microsoft, and could use some specific examples. The strategies don't necessarily have to be good either, just any info I could get would be appreciated.

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I'm fascinated by movies in general only the fantasy genre but I do not like if all else if I like big Hollywood productions and very few independent productions.