Vista of hell

It's happened to us all.  Your laptop goes mental - mine just started scrolling like digital St Vitus Dance;  all on its own it would spin through files and menu options like a junkie looking for a fix.  Sony were less than helpful (last time I buy a Vaio) and so I went through that process we laughably call upgrading.

A new laptop that took a day - yes a day - to load all the software that Microsoft deem necessary for you to write a document, do some sums or surf the net.  A day for christsakes!  It was as though my new laptop had turned up for its first day at work and then announced it needed to spend it with its therapist.  Then of course it refused to talk to the other machines in the office (still  having a sulk a week later). 

But the worst shock of all was that  Microsoft have 'improved' Office. I'd love to know what the benefits of these improvements are to outweigh the fact that I can't find anything.  Want to change the font - you're in the wrong menu subset.  It's as though some petty and rather spiteful minor deity has rearranged London, putting Waterloo with Euston because they are both stations.

Can you imagine Ford swapping the accelerator and the brake pedals because some focus group in Ohio thought they looked prettier that way?

And now that I have rewired my own brain for Microsoft's benefit no one can read what I sent them because they've added another letter to .doc or .xls so the sane members of the universe who haven't transferred to the dark side have to upgrade too.

There should be a law against it.