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I’ve had it with Microsoft – over the weekend I was trying to do a simple task – record some video from my TV card and burn it to disc. With my Mac, this would hav taken 10mins max. However I did not have he fortune of using it so instead had to revert back to my Dinosaur (2.4 GHz AMD Athlon 64 bit with 2GB RAM!! I say Dinosaur as my 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo Mac, sh*ts on it).

Anyway, I open up the TV software and begin recording. After I have finished I play it back – opens in Windows Media Player fine. No problems I thought!!

I open up Windows Movie Maker and try to import the video – big effort. I recieve an error message saying i don’t have the correct codecs – what the fuck – I just played it and recorded it on this machine!!!

Then the PC crashes – bearing in mind this is a pretty quick dual core. I get the usual message that ‘I have performed an illegal operation’ – tell me, whats illegal about trying to get Windows to work (the only illegal thing was buying it in the first place).

Frustration, I then tried to send the file to my Mac over the network to see if I could burn it on there. Opps, silly me – I get a message saying I don’t have permission to access my network and to contact my network administrator (that would be me then)!!

If I don’t have permission and its my machine, then who the fuck does!!

The verdict – my PC is now on eBay (13 watchers last time I checked, who wants a Windows machine I don’t know) and the money is going towards a new iMac.

Oh, by the way – the file recorded fine on my Mac – just goes to prove, Windows is a pile of shit and don’t even start me on Vista!!