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                            My Lunch with Windows

I don't know how anyone can actually use Microsoft Windows [1]. Yesterday and
today I log in and Microsoft Windows XP Professional has thrown up speech
balloons telling me that there are important updates to Windows that I need
to install now and oh, why don't I get a Microsoft Passport [2] to use with
Microsoft Messenger and while you're at it, want to make Internet Explorer
your default browser, because I've noticed that it's some heretical browser
and we can't have that, now can we?

Shut the XXXX up.

No, I do not want a Microsoft Passport.

Sure, muck with the system files as you update, if that will shut you up.

And you can stick Internet Explorer were the sun don't shine.

If it weren't for a single rare support issue (cough FrontPage cough) I
wouldn't have Microsoft Windows XP Profession (or any Windows version for
that matter) on this system.

But no, I fear I must have this daily dialog with Microsoft Windows XP
Profession as computers excel at repetative drudgery.

Sigh.

[1] http://www.tupbiosystems.com/articles/xp_danger.html
[2] http://news.com.com/2100-1001-275366.html?legacy=cnet

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