Microsoft says a lot of nothing.

[Dark Jaguar]

A tale told by an idiot. All sound and fury signifying nothing.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11961731/

Even more ironic is that Microsoft has ginned up a new slogan, "People Ready," which apparently is meant to describe its software, or maybe it describes companies that use its software, or whatever. Who knows? It's one of those phrases that means anything, and so means nothing. Who makes this stuff up? Do they actually pay this person? And is Microsoft just figuring out now that its programs are used by — gasp — people?

Microsoft execs also talked about "Impacting People," then they dragged out fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger, who seemed very "impacted" as he sang praise for Microsoft programs. Actually, he was reading meaningless statements from a TelePrompTer. Here is one of his quotes, verbatim: "When you combine people and technology, you have a very powerful combination." Think about that. Just let it sink in for a minute.

[Dark Jaguar]

On the criticism of the OS, I have to add one thing. Why don't a lot of people switch to something else? Games. Games games and more games. When they get some perfect emulation going, I'll switch to something easier to use. I will say this. It's a little harsh to call Windows a horrible OS. XP does it's job pretty well. The instability problems only really exist if people are installing a bunch of stuff that fights with other stuff for resources or are just junk programs outright. However, that might be some of the point. The OS is more stable to things like that than before, but it isn't even close to idiot proof. I don't demand that from my OS, but the average consumer has good cause to. At any rate, I recently upgraded my hard drive to a nice 200 gig fellow and stuck my old 80 gig as a secondary. I'm thinking of setting up a new Linux partition and experimenting with that again. I might try Ubunto this time around. One thing of note, I've been experimenting with Open Office and they seem to have pretty much copied every single aspect of MS Office into it, except an Outlook clone, but they did add a heavy duty math application which is very nice. I've pretty much ditched MS Office in favor of it at this point. Now then, all I need is a decent replacement for Outlook. Any recommendations?

(By the way, still not willing to go to something other than IE. Most sites are still designed with IE in mind and until otherwise I'm going to use what works.)

[A Black Falcon]

If you insist with sticking with a bad browser, then you deserve what you get...