[samtheman]

I don’t have time to read the whole article right now but I just want to chime in with a new reason to hate IE:

IE 8 has some pop-up when you start it (I don’t have it now and I don’t remember exactly what it says) that implies that you should get IE 8 now (even though you already have it!!!) and the only choices are DO IT NOW and REMIND ME LATER.

I mostly use Chrome and Firefox so I run into this infrequently (on other people’s computers) but it is highly, highly, highly irritating, as so much of MS can be.

[Still Thinking]

IE 8 has some pop-up when you start it (I don’t have it now and I don’t remember exactly what it says) that implies that you should get IE 8 now (even though you already have it!!!) and the only choices are DO IT NOW and REMIND ME LATER.

Yes, I love how many MS multiple choice dialogs are like:

Do the wrong thing

Do the right thing

Always do the wrong thing

If the wrong option gets an "always" why doesn't the good one? It's like someone at MS said "If those rubes are going to defy us, we'll make sure they have to go to the trouble to do it EVERY SINGLE TIME!" You'd think they were Democrats or something.

[Notary Sojac]

MS popups were of course brought to their ultimate in Windows Vista, where what was missing was a radio button that said “NEVER BOTHER ME ABOUT THIS F*****G THING AGAIN, OK????”