Just after a few days after writing this post stating that I would give Microsoft Windows 7 a try, I have already come to the conclusion that Microsoft still sucks. They say you only get one chance to make a good impression and Microsoft clearly doesn’t subscribe to that philosophy. Perhaps that’s the attitude of a monopoly but so too was IBM once and look where they’re at now.

After downloading the file, I have been unable to successfully install Windows 7, after tired of repeated error messages stating, “not able to write files” I decided to harness the power of the Google to try to solve my problem and I ran across this article from CNN.

Windows 7 student upgrade hell
Posted by Philip Elmer-DeWitt
October 24, 2009 8:03 AM

Microsoft’s big launch, it turns out, was not entirely trouble-free

College students who took advantage of a “deal too sweet to pass up” have run into a bit of trouble.

The $29 electronic version of Windows 7 Home Edition sold for Microsoft (MSFT) through Digital River (DRIV) doesn’t seem to install properly on some 32-bit Vista machines.

Apparently the download files weren’t properly packaged and when some users tried to “unload the box” they got an error that read:

“We are unable to create or save new files in the folder in which this application was downloaded”

As you can imagine, that’s the exact error message I’ve been getting.  It turns out there are a few magical hoops that I could jump through to get this problem fixed but that will involve a commitment of time.    This is entirely the reason why I switched to Mac – IT JUST WORKS!

Microsoft you still suck and I won’t be buying any more of your crappy products; you’ve now climbed back to my blacklist of companies I don’t do business with so enjoy those $30 you charged me for crap.