OMG the Aggrevation

Hey gang! I know I haven't posted in almost three months. But I have a really good excuse I swear! So in the middle of May I got a new computer, "Joy! I can be more productive!" but... "No Joy..." The thing has Windows 8.

Now as one writer to another let me tell you.. You do not want Windows 8.

It had the normal trial word processor... MS Word. My least favorite of all the Word Processors EVER. Wordpad and Notepad. Now my preferred word processor of the last 7 years has been Microsoft Works Word Processor, and my product licensing is non-transferable. And as Works is no longer in production it is not compatible with Windows 8.... like everything else.

In the last 3 months I have found that there is not a Word processor for 8 because MS wants you to pay for Microsoft Office 365.. When I complained everyone, friends, family and Microsoft alike have said "You have Wordpad and Notepad" and in so saying let me tell you what my response has been...

"WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR: A word processor that allows the creation of Macros, can save docs as PDFs, will allow pictures and table formatted items to be inserted, Contains a word counter, grammar and spell check. I do not want to pay more than 30.00.."

The answer has been..

"Try Google DOCs"

Me:

"Windows 8 will not allow me to create new documents, and it still doesn't fix the issue of being able to access and edit projects that I was working on in Win Vista and Win 7."

Them:

"Open Office."

Me:

"Will download but will not install. AND it causes extreme system latency. I don't need free, I just need something that works. I am not trying to avoid spending money, I just don't want to give any more money to Microsoft after they effectively neutered my ability to use the computer for anything that isn't on the internet."

This whole situation has me ready to drop 5k and buy a Mac... but I hate Apple. Would consider a chrome book as a cheap option... but Google doesn't do customer support. So until this all gets settled, my writing is on hiatus as even the thought sends me into a small rage and severe depression because I can't access any of my works in progress.