IIS 7.WTF

Here is another perfect example of the momos at Microsoft messing up a good thing.  In my line of work I've used IIS 6 for years without much trouble.  Sure there were a few bumps and bruises along the way but nothing to call for a complete retooling of the interface.  The configuration of 6.0 was intuitive, easy to configure, and it just worked.  If you needed to find something within the interface, bam! it was right there waiting for you.  It was almost too easy to go in and change things and a curious newcomer could do some serious damage.  Well here is a shocker for you, instead of just tightening up the ship a little bit to save us from our own mistakes, they decide to go and completely revamp IIS 7.0.  Oh and what a wonderful job they did.  The interface is something like a baby throwing shit at a wall.  Icons thrown all over the place so you can't find anything, having to dig 3 and 4 levels deep to find a feature that used to be one click away.  It just stinks on ice.  So golf clap for Microsoft, they went from having a good solid interface you didn't cringe at when you had to use, to paint balling icons all over the fucking place so you don't know what the fuck is up and down.  What techie over 12 wants a million icons on a page?  We just want everything to be laid out neat and clear.  How hard is that?  Just change the view you say?  Sure I can do that but the layout is still impossibly different than 6.0 and still makes me want to put my head through a wall every time I need to make a change.  Fuck You Microsoft, I will use IIS 6 for as long as possible.

Internet Explorer 9 Beta is Hammered Shit as Expected.

Microsoft loves changes.  Unfortunately most of the time these changes are to products that function just fine rather than to the pieces of shit that actually need a revamping.  As for Internet Explorer well, there was definitely a need for a change because i'm sure being known as a virus loving shit show is not the direction they want to continue going in.  To make matter worse, during this time Firefox and Chrome have managed to kick the living shit out of it in every way and are coming back for seconds licking their lips.  So in realizing a change was long overdue they finally have decided to give IE a complete overhaul.  I was hesitantly curious and as soon as the beta was out I had to install it.  Yes i know I'm a glutton for punishment.  Shortly after the install I began to remember what MS did with Vista, Office, SharePoint, and countless other programs and I immediately cringed for what I had just done.  Just as I had suspected, the experience was not good.  I know beta's are supposed to have some bugs but Jesus Christ.  I haven't seen this many crashes since Billy Joel took a liking to a little combo called Whiskey and his Corvette.  The funniest part of it all is opening SharePoint with it seemed to upset it the most.  You can't make this shit up.  So I used Chrome to make any SharePoint edits until I uninstalled the shit show that is IE9 beta.  The bottom line is it's a long long way from making the average internet junkie happy.  In fact it effected my machine so poorly I think next time I get the funny idea to use and IE beta I will just have someone kick me in the nuts drop my PC down a flight of stairs.  It would be less painful for me and my PC would act pretty much the same as it did with IE9beta installed.  Well now that we all know what a cluster fuck piece of shit this software is, I have a few small observations.  First off how did Microsoft get away with completely stealing the design of Google Chrome?  No I don't mean "took some ideas from," or "got creative ideas from" or "was influenced by."  Fuck that.  It was like Google Chrome was jogging in Central Park just after dark, and Microsoft came up behind it, bend it over and raped the shit out of it without even a gratuitous reach-around.  Complete steal.  I know no one gives a shit what I think but bet your bottom dollar many others saw what a piece of trout grundle this software is as well.  It's just disappointing that with all the money MS pays for marketing and software development, they can't come up with their own great idea for a browser after years of the same boring shit?