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My opinion about MS turned a little bit towards positive due to .net and Visual Studio, however my recent experiences with Mozilla have made me very angry at King Bill once more...

Here's a short list of weird things that happened to me with Mozilla:

1. People started complaining that my　e-mails are unreadable, because character encoding is screwed. Character encoding with Japanese is complicated issue, so newbies often suffer encoding problems that are usually easy to fix. Well, 1st person complaining was my boss, a guy with 20+ years of experience in programming, and the second complainer was my friend who has master's degree in wireless engineering and who currently works for IBM... so not newbies, if these guys say it's unreadable, that means it is unreadable. Problem appeared when I started using hotmail with Mozilla, and mysteriously the problem disappeared when I tried with IE... no problem with any other e-mail provider, so I don't blame the browser.

2. hotmail address is not "remembered" by Mozilla (meaning I have to type the whole address every time, though it should be autocompleted)

3. I get redirected to "download browser (IE)" sites when I access MS sites...

4. My computer often crashes when I try to use Mozilla while a Word-document is open. It goes like this: I'm writing something, try to start the browser->everything freezes. I check with the task manager and it shows that word is using 99 PERCENT of the CPU time. It's like MS-Word is trying to stop Mozilla from starting. Of course this never happens if I try to use IE when Word is open.

To summarize, I would say MS software is not just intentionally incompatible with competing stuff, it is actively attacking non MS software on the same machine. Isn't that a definition of malware???
How far can they go before people really get angry??
Am I just being paranoid or has somebody else experienced this specific type of "proactive user hostileness"?

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Argh, forgot to login...

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Internet Explorer/.NET products don't have problems with character encoding -- Microsoft has invested lots into the localization, globalization, and internationalization libraries that are part of .NET. BTW, I don't use .NET anymore after learning what Microsoft truly did.

They [Microsoft] bitch about software pirating while the pirated the idea of .NET from Sun Microsystems' J2EE/J2SE. They also ripped the idea of JIT, web forms integrated with the framework, and the idea of a full application server. JSP is the EXACT SAME as ASP.NET syntax wise (<%@ page language="java" session="true"%> << look familiar?). C# is the EXACT SAME as java except that it has some improvements.

Morons...

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Isn't it actually possible to compile C# into java bytecode? I heard Microsoft was going to add that techology to Visual Studio but Sun didn't let them...

I still use .net though. Of course it's a java rip-off, that was quite clear as soon as C# appeared. But I'm going
to be happy if .net somehow "gets free" from MS. It is supposed to become platform independent so...

Anyway, MS software has ABSOLUTELY NO RIGHT to mess with my other software.

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'crypdoctor', --Yeah. Ditto. Ditto. DITTO! [Nicely Spotted]
I've had VERY similar experiences with the Microsux Browser/OS combo.
I FINALLY got exasperated enough with having my software 'chronically compromised' that I started looking around for the solution and ended up HERE in f2c trying to learn C++ and Linux Red Hat. 8(

Still, -I have to respect the Criminal Brilliance of the Redmond Code Writers insofar as their antics are accomplished with true expertise. I can find no way to stop them doing whatever they like to Me, --as long as I'm 'leasing' their product. 8(

SO.- --To all you poor Folks who have to 'put up' with me being here in f2c NOW, --DON'T blame Me, --BLAME MICROSUX. :|

[download your new I.E. browser free NOW Kiddies, and update Microsux's surveilance capability/compatability. Introduce some more backdoors TODAY.]

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I have no problems with Mozilla and MS. Here's an interesting fact about MS censorship: if you send a gmail invite to anyone with a hotmail address the server automatically deletes it.

I find the best thing to do with any version of Windows is to format every few months or so and do a complete reinstall. That way hard drives don't overflow, and you clear out the registry of all the clutter that Windows tends to leave in it.

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to be fair, yahoo does the same thing. it's more a spam filter thing than a censorship thing. all these gmail invites look VERY similar and are going to a lot of people, so to a mail server that gets as much traffic as hotmail or yahoo, you see a lot of the same message going to a lot of people. that almost always means it's spam, but in this case it wasn't.

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'roddefig', -TY for the tip about 'gmail'.
[didn't know THAT one]
 roddefig

YES. -Any other option has effectively proven to be at best a 'get by for now' solution; -and at worst a waste of time.

Mozilla and windoze however, seem to co-exist relatively peacefully and I DO love the Mozilla easy access 'cookie manager'. [even though it doesn't stop 'Tickle' popups on THIS site.]