Forecast for the Week Unstable with a chance of intrusion.

Should today be representative of what I have in store for the week, I think I will have to call in sick for the rest of it. So far today, I have had to do the following:

Reboot PC - 3 times (due to 'unusually' slow performance and app crashes)
Restart Outlook - 2 times (it just decided to crash twice... so far)
Kill IE - yes, it froze today... but that barely raises an eyebrow anymore.
Install 'security updates' - another 10 or so, I've pretty much stopped counting as I know I'll be screwed one way or the other.
Kill & Restart MS Word - Twice.

This of course does not take into account all the minor annoyances that I've been putting up with along the way... but that's just Windows environment for ya. Closer and closer I feel I am being pushed into the world of Apple or Linux... it will no doubt be this year.

All I want is a system on which I can work with which I can expect a reasonable level of stability and reliability... Why is this so much to ask for?  ¶ 6/19/2006 02:06:00 PM