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Boycott Internet Explorer
My advice is simple: Boycott IE. It’s a cancer on the Web that must be stopped. IE isn’t secure and isn’t standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators.
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You can turn the tide by demanding more from Microsoft and by using a better alternative Web browser. I recommend and use Mozilla Firefox, but Apple Safari (Macintosh only) and Opera 8 are both worth considering as well.
I totally agree with Paul Thurrott, I couldn’t say it any better myself.
(From Slashdot.)
Microsoft security
Sheesh!
It is of course a well-known fact that Microsoft cares a great deal about security. I mean, there are so very few bugs in Internet Explorer, Windows is renowned for its stability, Microsoft always realeses security updates and patches (for the few bugs that might perhaps sometimes occur) very quickly. It’s just… perfect!
But just as the “solution” to an earlier problem, I wrote about, they have again come up with a great idea: they will give the standard user in Longhorn more rights, in the hope that people will less often log in as Administrator.
Oookay… so you give the users more rights, so that they will have less rights… But at least, even normal users will now have enough rights to f*ck up the system!
Oh well, as if Microsoft ever really got an idea about user rights and permissions.
I mean, “registry” — need I say more? OK, how about “Windows\System” directory?
source: WebWereld (in Dutch)
DO NOT click that link!
Microsoft has published a great “solution” , or better a work-around, for a bug in IE: Don’t click on links! Just type them in manually!
Because they are too stupid to show the correct address in the address bar (and status bar), you might be on a different site than you would expect. Therefore, you should just type the address yourself, so that you are certain where you’re going…
Click for example this link. If you only see http://www.microsoft.com in the address bar after clicking, it’s time to start using a real browser, such as Mozilla, instead of the crap you’re using now!
(Source tweakers.net.)
Microsoft Antivirus?
Read this on tweakers.net (in Dutch):
June 11, 2003: Microsoft buys RAV antivirus software from GeCAD.
What? Is Microsoft going to make their own virus scanner?
June 12, 2003: RAV AntiVirus ceases to exist.
“At the moment there are more than 10 million users and most of them use Linux.”
Ah, no, they just misuse their monopoly again and buy out the competition! That’s more like Microsoft… how typical!
Update: Have a look at this, it’s true after all…
June 18, 2003: Microsoft is going to develop own virus scanner.
Netiquette
People that use MS Word to write their emails should be shot!
Once in a while I get messages like that, for instance as part of a mailing list.
Such an email message is normally a “multi-part message in MIME format”. The first part is the normal plain text version of the email, and the second part is the HTML / XML version. (Sorry, I don’t mean “HTML”, of course, I mean “MS’s definition of HTML”!)
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