Excuse Me, Please

Gurdip Singh Bhamra

Last year, in the month of March, I got a new laptop for my usage from a reputed Hardware Company which has its chain of showrooms across the world. It came with a preinstalled operating system from Microsoft along with some third-party software. On using I found that the device is slow in performing the routine tasks and I was at a loss sitting ducked in front of the laptop waiting for a program to finish and go over to the next task, notwithstanding the facts that the tasks were as simple opening a document and after a little change saving on the hard drive. 

A careful scrutiny brought the following to the surface and I was surprised that the companies selling us the software are passing their ill-conceived software that require a lot of extra bits and they are consistently and continuously added to your hardware in the name of updating the software. For this you need to keep your machine connected and the machine is busing using your data to download the files as big as few gigabytes and you keep your fingers close as your machine has to attend some other tasks which are otherwise useless for you.

My question is that why software companies are selling software like operating system which are ill- conceived and designed incompletely and furthermore and the ones that do get along with the hardware present in the machine. Should it force the consumers to buy incomplete software which is not steady and consistent with the hardware? If I pay around 10000 bucks for the genuine software, I mean to buy a wholly complete software to take care of my needs, easily customizable that fits my work space. It should not require a new update at least in the first two years. 

We stand duped; and fooled by the big companies like Microsoft which wants us to spend our resources like money and power besides Time to complete their research and development projects, if any.  If such is the conditions the customer should think twice before paying for an incomplete software. 

The expensive business machines like laptops and notebooks are of no good use if we are unable to use it for our personal as well as professional use.