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Microsoft Launches IT Superhero Comic
willdavid writes "Paul McDougall reports in InformationWeek on Microsoft's new online comic. The Heroes Happen Here comic strips are being created by Jordan Gorfinkel, a former DC Comics editor who helped revitalize the Batman series. 'Tech workers who in the middle of the night fix a downed server or take on a computer virus don't really have extraordinary powers. It just seems that way. But a new comic book has debuted in which IT pros literally are superheroes. The daily Web comic, called Heroes Happen Here, features tech savvy crime fighters like Lord Firewall, who "stands between chaos and order" and says things like "begone vermin!"'" And because it's never easy, in order to read the archives of the comic you're going to need to install Microsoft's Silverlight.
I hope that your comment was at least partially sarcastic.
Microsoft, no matter what your opinion of them may be, have the complete right to make Internet Explorer the proprietary Web Browser for updating their Software, its their tool, for updating their tools.
I have never been angry at any developer for choosing to use their own software.
Microsoft has never disallowed people from downloading updates individually (or ocasionally in small 'Packages', and obviously SP's) which does not care what Web Browser you may be using, although sometimes it does require ActiveX (for WGA testing).
Are you equally annoyed with Apt-Get? or Ubuntu's update system?