I Won't Uninstall It But . . .

OK, I admit it.  I'm a Microsoft schmuck, a lay-down, a patsy.  I first touched a Microsoft product in 1983 when I got my hands on an IBM-PC XT running PC-DOS. And over the years I became the DOS master.  Eventually, and only under duress, I made the transition to Windows, learned to love it and actually made my living programming applications for it throughout the late 90's.  I still hold a soft spot in my heart for ol' Bill Gates's creations.

But today I gave up on Internet Explorer 7.   When Microsoft finally implemented Firefox's tabbed interface, I downloaded it in a heartbeat but, alas, it isn't quite there.  I could put up with its inability to properly render a page at smaller and smaller resolutions and it wasn't a huge deal that when you switch to another tab and then return to the original, it was likely garbled gibberish that required a refresh.  That's just a button-click after all.

But its proclivity to freeze up every, oh I don't know, 2 minutes, has done me in.  Yes, if you open another copy of IE7 and switch your focus to it, the frozen copy will likely start up again.  And yes, occasionally you need to open another copy, load a site, hit 'Refresh' and then -- and only then -- will the recalcitrant "spawn" come back to life.

But it's all just become too much of a pain to live with and so I've sheepishly returned home to Firefox.  Microsoft should know better.  What the hell are they thinking when they roll out new stuff full of bugs? I bought a brand new Toshiba laptop last month and it's working beautifully -- I love it.  And I'm just thankful for one thing -- it didn't come loaded with Vista.  I can't imagine what fresh hell its users are suffering through.

Comments

[Jill]

I've always hated IE... it just always felt "wrong" for me. I opted for Netscape which was great until Firefox came out. Firefox rocks!

As for Vista - I haven't heard anything good about it from friends who have it. I'll stick with XP, thankyouverymuch.