Windows break too easily. Be it from a flying baseball to a stick to a chair to just simple banging. Windows are fragile things.

Perhaps, seeing how fragile windows are, naming an operating system that is buggy and breaks so easily “Windows” is a wise move.

Once more it’s time for Windows problems in our home. No, not the windows on our home (though those are troublesome as well) but windows on the computers in the house. This leaves me once more asking myself, “Why? Why do we put up with this?”

I had a friend over last week and she was checking her MySpace account when suddenly my husband’s computer completely locks up on her. On attempt to reboot, first the computer could not recognize the hard drive. Then it would, only Windows could not boot up properly. We’ve tried and tried and are left scratching our heads.

Finally we decide perhaps not a full reinstall but a repair might do the trick. Out comes the Windows CD and away we go. All seems peachy until it comes time for the product key. This is just a repair, the product key should be located somewhere already, but no, that’s not good enough. I must input this again. Well that’s fine, I know the product key. I type it in but even though this is the right CD and the right product key, I get an error saying the product key is not valid. How can the key on this computer not be valid? I’ve used it on this computer before?

Why is the more pertinent question I believe. Why? Because Microsoft wants to be a pain in my rear. Windows wants to make me break things.

If it weren’t for all that we have on the computer in the way of files as well as the fact it’s a gaming computer I’d be tempted to dump everything and just switch to Linux.

Why do we let Microsoft control our lives in this way? Make ourselves miserable? Make computing hard? Make computing painful instead of fun?