Testing Windows 11 Pro...

Once upon a time, I thought I understood what testing new Windows operating systems was all about. I thought I understood the process of providing feedback or suggestions in exchange for a freebie version of the latest unproven and unreleased Windows version that is presently in the process of being made ready for its release to the unsuspecting consumer. I was wrong. 

Mighty Microsoft has been stroking my ego for years with meaningless bullshit about how valuable my feedback is, and how many suggestions I've made, (200) and quests completed (43) and all like that. A few of my own ideas actually made it into the software of Windows 10, which was being billed as 'the forever system' at one point along the way. And then, rather surreptitiously and seemingly suddenly, along

comes the news "Hey, Kids! Guess What? We have a new operating system called Windows 11 !!! You really ought to try it!"

My reaction can't be described here. It would all be censored. I'd stupidly been trying to improve Windows 10 from daylight in the mornings until sometimes long after midnights, just so that I could tell myself I'd helped with the Windows that would be continually improved forever. Then I learned that 'forever' meant the same old five years lifespan it always had. What a fucking fool I was!

But it taught me something. It taught me a lot of things, about myself and others, and it did pass a hell of a lot of otherwise boring time, so maybe I shouldn't beat myself up over it. But in retrospect, I'd have much rather been riding my bike in the park, chasing along the bike paths behind the young stuff with the shapely posteriors, and the rental bikes that never seem to work all that well.... But there's no pathway back to 2008. You just can't get there from here.