Microsoft Blames Windows Explorer
Humor, Personal Productivity, Software February 26th, 2006
Windows Vista Feb CTP Performance Problems? Try removing Windows Explorer! (via Jerry)
Also see: A Dead PC is a Safe PC - says Microsoft 
Tags: Microsoft, Windows, Vista, Windows Vista, Explorer, Windows Explorer, Error, Bug, Windows Bug
Zoli Erdos
Want better internet in Windows Vista? Try Firefox
This is hillarious! A screen shot from Windows Vista via Zoli’s Blog:
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Microsoft Getting Human
Wow, for the first time in my life I’ve received an honest, almost-human Windows XP message: The installation is taking longer than expected.Not as brutally honest as this one, but a good start Tags: Microsoft, Windows, Windows XP, WinXP, Error, Bug,…
As a happy Firefox user, I recently downloaded MS Internet Explorer 7 in order to open a file from my son’s teacher that would not open with Firefox. Since then, Outlook had been extremely sluggish - slow motion like - in opening even small files, but freezes on larger files with graphics.
Solution: After removing Internet Explorer 7, Outlook runs fine, with no delays! It is amazing how MS products seem to kill each other!
P.S. For redundancy, I have all email routed to an gMail account. I have learned the hard way to back up Outlook when other problems have cropped up.