The Straw That Broke The Camel's Back

I've been threatening to do this for a long time - to my friends - promising myself I would do this some day for a number of reasons:

1. It can be very therapeutic articulating your frustration and anger over something - as opposed to just sucking it up and holding it in - or ignoring it, thereby invalidating your feelings and self respect.
2. I have earned enough experience over the years to be a curmudgeon, and be good at it.
3. There are simply not enough people complaining about Microsoft. It seems far too many people just accept the crappy stuff Microsoft expects us to put up with and Microsoft is never challenged to do better. Imagine what kind of cars we would be driving today if someone like Ralph Nader had never challenged the automobile industry.
4. I want to keep a record off all the stupid, annoying ways Microsoft wastes my time and complicates my life as a testimony to what poor products they peddle.

Today was like most days, I was playing around with some new Microsoft technology - Hyper-V Server "8"Beta to be exact. I have been struggling for days to get it to do something useful, but the nightmare just continues. By the way, part of being a curmudgeon is being stubborn, and I have this stubborn need to see if I can actually get this thing running, and how much effort it is. I know it sound perverse and masochistic, but I am so close to getting it going, and I have a deep need to evaluate things for self satisfaction.

As is typical, when I search for what I consider to be fundamental strings like "Hyper-V Powershell" I get back reams and reams of crap:

• Useless web pages full of abstruse information about Hyper-V and/or Powershell, but with nothing close to what I am looking for.
• One forum article after another of people trying to figure out the same things I am, but getting back incomplete or misleading answers from others. It is truly amazing how few people try to help without actually reading what people are asking or saying.
• Microsoft TechNet documentation written by idiot Microsoft technical writers who go overboard on information without really thinking about what is good information and how engineer it as knowledge. They always seem to miss the specific information I am looking for.

Microsoft seems to foster a culture of 'hackers' willing to put up with any shit placed in front of them - as if life does not have enough challenges already. Maybe what the world needs is an 'Occupy Redmond' movement?