I am NOT a techie, but I think it is MICROSOFT, who is the slow moving culprit.
Now, the geniuses on FR will tell me that I am nuts.
So I defer to those who feel it is Free Republic.
Last I knew, nothing about FR was running on Microsoft products. The servers were Linux, etc. and I don't think that's changed.
I'm on an iPad (Apple). No MS stuff involved at my end either.
However, it's still a free country, so blame MS and Gates if you prefer. :-)