Microsoft is Evil (and Stupid)

Just a little sidenote on why i think Microsoft is Evil and/or stupid. Like the picture above...note little Bill Gates on the front row.

I was working a problem at my job and I needed to search for a particular phrase in a file. The problem was I didn't know which file the phrase would be found in. I had 19 possible files in the folder. I said fine, I'll just use Microsoft's Search tool. Used it, didn't find anything. I was like am I going crazy? So I tried it again and didn't find it.

I know what you're saying. "Well, Renee, it must not have been there!". Well you're wrong. I manually looked through every file and found it....in the sixth file. I couldn't understand why Microsoft Search wouldn't find it. Our Information Technology Officer explained why in my team forum. Microsoft is stupid. Seriously. Their search function will not search files with unregistered extensions. Our files contain insurance claims so they could contain any kind of file extension: .RAP, .RAT, .DAT, etc.

To rectify the problem, we have to use Agent Ransack. If you all have the same problem, use it. I've heard a lot of good things. So that's just another little thing that bugs me about Microsoft. It's still better than Apple....they haven't sunk that low yet. We'll see.

UPDATE: J reminded me that Microsoft is stupid in another way. You can read it here.