Why do people hate Windows?

Windows brought us into PC era, it becomes the most widely used OS in the past 20 or so years. But unfortunately there are still many people hate Windows. Is it because we may encounter the notorious blue screen issue now and then? 
 People hate Microsoft Windows for the same reason they hate Comcast, United Airlines, or Paypal. Once Microsoft gained a dominant market position, it completely and utterly took its customers for granted. It became arrogant and complacent, causing customers to feel unappreciated and victimized. This is nothing surprising. Once a company is assured of its market position and no longer has to win its customers, it seldom treats them very well. This causes widespread resentment by customers who know they are treated badly because they have so few other choices. From Windows 95 on, Microsoft launched a series of products that were:
 
 Inconsistent - XP and Windows 7 were good. ME and Vista were disasters. We couldn't trust a software company to make good software. We'd pay $99 for a new release, only to be worse off the next day.
 Not secure - for a full decade a Windows user had to buy 3rd party software, patch constantly, and still deal with major security breaches.
 Confusing - the UI was a cluttered, inconsistent mess for years. Bill Gates himself said it best: http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2008/06/24/full-text-an-epic-bill-gates-e-mail-rant/
 Slow to innovate - quick, name the top 5 innovations between Windows 95 and Windows 7. Between Office 95 and Office 2011?
 Resource hogs - want a OS upgrade? Buy a new computer.
 Ran on poor hardware - for decades you received Windows in a form of a crappy plastic box you got from Dell or HP, probably at Best Buy from a clueless sales rep trained only to upsell you crap you didn't need.
 Full of crapware - those same partners loaded the desktop with crapware aimed at upselling grandpa on useless crap by scaring him to death.
 Increasingly irrelevant - Microsoft missed search, touch screens, tablets, media players, saas, cloud, modern browsers, and virtually every major technology shift in the last 10 years.
 
 This leads to a lot of pent-up anger. Over the years, the hundreds of hours of wasted time and hassle add up. Consumers have long memories and will dump a company that abuses them like this at the first chance they get.  And then, the fog started to lift:
 
 People discovered iPods, iPhones, iPads, Android Phones and Kindles. They said, "hey it just works"
 They discovered Chrome and Firefox. "Hey, it just works."
 They discovered GMail, Google Apps, Dropbox. "Hey it just works."
 They tried out Mac OS. "Hey it just works."
 Ex-Windows developers ran the next generation of apps on Amazon Web Services. "Hey, it just works."
 
 Microsoft is now acting like the lover who took his partner for granted for years and got dumped as a result. "I can change!" He pleads.  They have scrambled to support mobile and tablet touchscreens, have added more cloud services, have improved Internet Explorer, and are gaining more control over their hardware and retail ecosystem. And the new products are very good, but it doesn't matter. It is no longer about products. It is about trust. The damage has been done, and a reconciliation is unlikely. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

 

Windows使我们进入电脑时代,它成为最广泛使用的操作系统在过去的20年左右。但不幸的是,仍然有许多人讨厌Windows。因为我们可能会遇到臭名昭著的蓝色屏幕问题现在然后呢?

人们讨厌微软Windows同样的原因,他们讨厌Comcast,美国联合航空公司,或贝宝。一旦微软获得了市场支配地位,它完完全全、彻彻底底地把客户视为理所当然。它成为了自大和傲慢,让用户感到赏识和受害。这并不令人惊讶。一旦一个公司是保证其市场地位和不再赢得它的客户,它很少对他们很好。这引起了人们的广泛不满的顾客知道他们是糟糕的对待,因为他们有这么几个其他的选择。从Windows 95,微软推出了一系列的产品:

不一致的——XP和Windows 7是好的。我和Vista是灾难。我们不能信任一个软件公司的好软件。我们会支付99美元购买新版本,只是变得更糟的第二天。

不安全——整整十年Windows用户不得不购买第三方软件、补丁不断,而且还应对重大安全隐患。

令人困惑——UI是一个杂乱的、不一致的混乱多年。比尔盖茨本人说的最好:http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2008/06/24/full-text-an-epic-bill-gates-e-mail-rant/

缓慢的创新——快速、名称前5创新Windows 95和Windows 7之间。95年和2011年之间的办公室办公室吗?

占用大量资源-想要一个OS升级?买一台新电脑。

跑在可怜的硬件——几十年来你收到Windows在形式的一个蹩脚的塑料箱中你得到了戴尔或惠普,可能在百思买从一个一无所知的销售代表培训只增销你废话你不需要。

充满垃圾软件——那些相同的伙伴加载桌面和软件旨在大行其道爷爷在无用的废话,吓死他了。

越来越无关紧要——微软错过了搜索、触摸屏、平板电脑、媒体播放器,saas、云、现代浏览器,几乎每一个主要的技术进步在过去的10年。

这就导致大量的被压抑的愤怒。在过去的几年里,数百小时的浪费时间和麻烦增加。消费者的长期记忆,将转储一个公司,滥用他们这样在第一次机会得到。然后,雾开始解除:

人们发现ipod、iphone、ipad、Android手机和kindle。他们说,“嘿它只是作品”

他们发现Chrome和Firefox。“嘿,这只是作品。”

他们发现GMail、谷歌应用程序,Dropbox。“嘿,这只是作品。”

他们尝试了Mac OS。“嘿,这只是作品。”

前任windows开发人员跑下一代应用程序在亚马逊网络服务。“嘿,这只是作品。”

微软现在是像情人谁把他的伙伴是理所当然的多年,被抛弃了结果。“我可以改变!”他恳求道。他们纷纷支持移动和平板电脑触摸屏,添加了更多的云服务,改善了ie浏览器,并获得更多的控制他们的硬件和零售生态系统。和新产品是很好的,但没关系。它不再是关于产品的。它是关于信任。伤害已经造成,和解是不可能的。“骗我一次,可耻的是你。愚弄我两次,可耻的是我。”