Microsoft keyboards

Why in God's name would you design a keyboard like the one I've just been given at the office here? Apart from the Microsoft name, which explains a lot, this keyboard is just wrong. They've decided to make two subtle changes to the layout of the keys which are just killing me in terms of lost data and sheer annoyance.
First, they've grouped the functions keys into 4 groups of 3 instead of 3 groups of 4.
Second, they've re-arranged the cluster of keys containing home/end/pgup/pgdn and delete. Worst, the delete key is now in the wrong place, and is huge. And it's right next to the enter key. I've lost a considerable amount of work and data this morning because of this stupid fucking layout. Plus it takes three times as long to type anything because the keyboard has this annoying bib thing under the space bar which prevents you from being able to reach any of the keys properly. It's an ergonomic nightmare!!!
I also discovered that the f-keys have been "helpfully" defaulted to not be the f-keys any more. Now they're help, undo, redo, new, open etc etc. To make them behave like function keys, you need to hit a key called "F-lock". The problem then is that when that's on, the printscreen button doesn't work because the "F-lock" turns "printscreen" into "insert".
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAArrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggghh! Why, Microsoft, why? Do you hate everyone who owns a computer? Or is the whole company just staffed by incompetent retards?

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