I used to use Outlook 2003 all the time and it crashes on a regular basis. It also takes a LONG time to load once you get it full of emails, and it does not handle IMAP correctly. (No Exchange Server.)
Have the clout to carry it out?? You are talking about Massachusetts, home of the Revolution and gay marriage. They do whatever the hell they want there... If anyone in the US is going to kick out Microsoft it will be there.
Firefox is immensely better than IE. My computer was riddled with spyware until I started using Firefox. But even better than that, Firefox has extensions -- IE doesn't. IE will never be able to keep up with the functionality of Firefox.
I had this problem with the web site of the bus system of a major US city. It would work with any browser until you got to to page where you actually view bus schedules. You couldn't view the bus schedules with anything but IE. I was using only Linux at the time so I was getting angry about it. I sent them a letter explaining the problem and talked about accessibility and how "my tax dollars" were paying for the site.
I never heard back from them but within a week the problem was fixed. I'm sure a few strongly-worded letters could get the problem fixed within hours.
It goes against human nature to work 40 hours in a cubicle. Here is a quote from William Temple from the 18th century on how to condition the human to an unnatural work week:
"When these children are four years old, they shall be sent to the county workhouse and there taught to read two hours a day and be kept fully employed the rest of their time in any of the manufacturers of the house which best suits their age, strength and capacity. . . but besides, there is considerable use in their being, somehow or other, constantly employed at least twolve hours in a day, whether they earn their living or not; for by these means we hope that the rising generation will be so habituated to constant employment that it would at length prove agreeable and entertaining to them."
That is just the nature of society that demands production. We are artificially, and intentionally conditioned to accept unnatural working conditions. Tell a European that you only get 2 weeks vacation per year! Many hunter-gatherer cultures only work 15 hours per week on subsistence tasks.
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I used to use Outlook 2003 all the time and it crashes on a regular basis. It also takes a LONG time to load once you get it full of emails, and it does not handle IMAP correctly. (No Exchange Server.)
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Have the clout to carry it out?? You are talking about Massachusetts, home of the Revolution and gay marriage. They do whatever the hell they want there... If anyone in the US is going to kick out Microsoft it will be there.
Firefox is immensely better than IE. My computer was riddled with spyware until I started using Firefox. But even better than that, Firefox has extensions -- IE doesn't. IE will never be able to keep up with the functionality of Firefox.
I had this problem with the web site of the bus system of a major US city. It would work with any browser until you got to to page where you actually view bus schedules. You couldn't view the bus schedules with anything but IE. I was using only Linux at the time so I was getting angry about it. I sent them a letter explaining the problem and talked about accessibility and how "my tax dollars" were paying for the site.
I never heard back from them but within a week the problem was fixed. I'm sure a few strongly-worded letters could get the problem fixed within hours.
It goes against human nature to work 40 hours in a cubicle. Here is a quote from William Temple from the 18th century on how to condition the human to an unnatural work week:
That is just the nature of society that demands production. We are artificially, and intentionally conditioned to accept unnatural working conditions. Tell a European that you only get 2 weeks vacation per year! Many hunter-gatherer cultures only work 15 hours per week on subsistence tasks.