Microsofts fucks me up again.

Following on from the previous post where Microsoft discontinued Microsoft Money, I've just discovered that they're about to ruin yet another product. For years I used iView Media Pro to organise my photos. Of course they got bought out by Microsoft and the product was turned into Expression Media. Away went the free updates and in came the Microsoft extortion - to the tune of $199 for me. We had v1.0 which had all the same functionality as the old iView product but had somehow undergone a 79Mb bloat in installer size and a nearly 100% increase in memory requirements - probably all the bugs they added. Then we had v2.0 which was a mild improvement - it went back down in size to the original and most of the bugs were fixed. And now with the announcement of v3.0 - WTF? - Expression Media has been discontinued?

Once again Microsoft buys out a perfectly workable piece of software, fucks it up then discontinues it. After raping everyone for $199 a piece.

The solution I guess is just to mercilessly steal and pirate Microsoft software. There's no point in buying any of it because it will all end up on the scrap pile just as soon as you get used to it. So by stealing it, you're not out of pocket.

Better yet - just don't use any of their software products at all, then you won't fall into the same pitfalls I have. Of course that's difficult, because if you choose something that actually works, Microsoft will inevitable buy out that company too, fuck up all their software and then discontinue it.

Wankers, the lot of them.

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