So I bought a netbook last night in order to be able to do word processing and light web surfing. I’m absolutely loving it so far, but just discovered a flaw that is *really* irritating:
Windows 7 Starter edition does not let you set your own picture as a desktop background. You are stuck with a boring blue screen and no other options.
Unbelievable. I can understand a Starter edition not having the more advanced features you’d find on the Premium and Ultimate editions. But desktop wallpaper? Really? Miscrosoft seriously thinks I’m going to go out and spend more than $100 on an OS upgrade just to get the ability to change the background picture?
I just posted to their blog that I’d pay $5 to change my wallpaper. It’s not worth that much to me in terms of money. But it sure is worth a heck of a lot to me in terms of goodwill, and they just irritated me in a big way. How cheap are they? I never imagined I wouldn’t be able to choose the picture that displays on my netbook.
Other than that, I’m enjoying this little computer, but every time I boot up, I’ll be very irritated with Microsoft, because I’ll be looking at a stupid, boring blue screen instead of one of my own pictures. And that just doesn’t seem to be a good thing to put into your customer’s minds every time they start their computers.
Heh. Remember the blue screen of death and how unstable some of Miscrosoft’s earlier OSs have been? I think that’s what will come to mind whenI look at this stupid blue screen every day. The Micosoft blue screen of death.
This is just beyond stupid.
I wondered how it was going to be. That would irritate me more than I can say. When I’m not “on” the computer, it’s still on and open and if it was a blue screen, I’d HATE that. It’s like a frame to me sometimes.
I’ve come to accept it…99% of the time when I’m on my notebook, I have a browser window open, anyway. Or Word. The full versions of Win7 don’t have this problem, though, so that’s good at least.
Except for this one irritation, I’m really happy with the netbook and Win7 has been much faster than Vista. I almost never boot up my laptop anymore…Vista just takes too dang long!