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Microsoft Upgrading Windows Users To Latest Version of MSIE
helix2301 writes "Microsoft will be upgrading all Windows XP, Vista and 7 users to the latest IE silently. They are doing this because they have found a large number of non-patched systems. Microsoft pointed out that Chrome and Firefox do this regularly. They will start with Australia and Brazil in January, then go world-wide after they have assured there are no issues."
We tried. We really did. Then our users started to complain that their browsing history was gone. Apparently, some of them had never heard of this strange thing called "bookmarks."
Occasionally living proof of the Ballmer peak.
Australia.... starts with an A
Brazil... starts with a B
probably just going down an alphabetical list of major countries.
No, they decided to do it alphabetically. So they spent $13 million conducting market research in which they asked focus groups to name a country that starts with A and another that starts with B. After spending another $4 million running statistical analysis on the results (plus an additional $87 million trying to keep the analysis computers running, since after all they were Windows machines), they came to the conclusion that the ideal A country is Australia and the ideal B country is Brazil. Shortly they will be running a $150 million ad campaign depicting Kermit the Frog and Al Gore traveling from Australia to Brazil.
Shit! We're next!
-Canadian AC
Brazil I imagine has rather high infection rates, due to the high piracy rates (I'm pretty sure Windows_XP_NoWGA_+_Keygen.torrent doesn't have all the patches slipstreamed in).
Australia is probably just because if the inhabitants can handle thousands of incredibly toxic spiders, scorpions, snakes, fish, and even exploding trees, they can probably handle a browser that's slightly more broken than normal.
Not to mention driving on the wrong side of the road.
And Vegemite.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Shit! We're next!
-Canadian AC
Ha! USA! USA! USA!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Little known fact: Originally they were going to use Austria as the "A" country, but they were afraid Arnold Schwarzenegger might get pissed, and come beat them up.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
Brazil I imagine has rather high infection rates, due to the high piracy rates (I'm pretty sure Windows_XP_NoWGA_+_Keygen.torrent doesn't have all the patches slipstreamed in).
Australia is probably just because if the inhabitants can handle thousands of incredibly toxic spiders, scorpions, snakes, fish, and even exploding trees, they can probably handle a browser that's slightly more broken than normal.
"Crikey! This is a really dangerous virus on our computer! I'm going to try to take it by the tail and drag it out of the drive so you can see it. That's quite a magnificient beast, isn't it? Look how it hooks in between layers and takes advantage of vulnerabilities. OK, letting it go again. Watch yer selves!"
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Hey, fuck you buddy! I take PRIDE in my pirated OS torrents...
- totallynotskeevydude@microsoft.ru
Shit! We're next!
-Canadian AC
Ha! USA! USA! USA!
Time for Luddites to move to Zimbabwe?
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
I think Microsoft might want to reconsider the order. Having a country filled with the deadliest snakes and spiders in the world be the alpha testers is NOT a smart move. Worse, Paul Hogan and Rolf Harris might release a celebrity protest song.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Dumping the worst browser in the world for the second worst browser in order to use the worst intranet platform in the world... When will they be upgrading from ME to Vista?
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In Russia, they put worms in vodka to see if it's toxic
... enough to drink yet.
Of course, by 2014 we'll all be using Linux.
But it'll only last for a year, by which time we will have adapted to naturally process pure, immaterial data, freed from the unavoidable constraints of software.
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No. Australia was chosen as its use of IE6 is 1.8%, which is pretty high.
Don't be apathetic. Procrastinate!