Citizen Microsoft

Couldn't sleep again last night.

Engaged in a bit of internet digression and found myself reading some online articles.

Here's an especially good one that's certain to make you angry even if you don't already despise the corporation known as Microsoft.*

Citizen Microsoft

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*Some MS products are very good:

In fact, I actually prefer IE to the clunky, slow but safe {yawn} Mozilla Firefox; however, because I do like IE, I've been forced to:

1) alter the manner in which I surf (IE only for sites I feel are safe... googling is definitely done by Firefox :-( arrgh *clunk* *clank* "Hurry the frick up already !!"

2) alter the IE Security settings (I'm now annoyingly alerted every single darn time Active X wants to run something... yada-yada-yada)

3) add even more programs (Ad-aware, Spybot Search and Destroy, Norton Anti-virus) that I'm forced to use if I want to protect my computer from the bad guys out there who wish to simply screw up my computer or add their crap for marketing purposes...those who wish to spy (I've got a story concerning that one I'll write about one day when I'm feeling energetic) ... those who wish to literally see my keystrokes and steal my passwords in order to clean out my bank account (hahahaha...they won't get much, but damnit, it's still my money...not theirs) or go on a shopping spree with my credit cards (now there's a scary thought).