It has been a long time since I have gone to the M$ web site. I have a new project which necessitates M$ tools -- no need to elaborate.
So, I go there, using IE (which I also haven't used for a *very* long time), and try to get to the support area to download some tools -- I keep getting redirected or popped up to some 3rd party support vendor site wanting me to call an 800 number to buy support for BS consumer products like Xbox. Also, I get error screen after error screen for Flash. (OK, the Flash plug-in for IE is probably way out of date, but I get 10-15 error message boxes that tumble open one after the other, no way to close!) When I finally get to the support pages, they are replete with ads. I mean really relevant ads like for Musinex (really! -- maybe people who develop in SQL Server have stuffed up noses?) and Capella University (do they also need fake college?). Plus the pages are populated with those annoying little ad-work hyperlinks. I don't know if you know what I mean, but they were popular about 4-5 years ago, where some normal word is turned into an ad that pops up whenever your cursor passes over it. Annoying!!! For example the phrase "Trial Software" pops up an ad for [ReallyNot]SmartShopping.com/TrialSoftware. Is MicroSquish so desperate for any kind of revenue that they actually direct people OFF their site for software??? I'm really trying to say to myself "Maybe MS programming wasn't that bad. I should give it another chance." But this crap makes it really, really hard. I want to close out, screaming "I don't need this project *that* bad!!" but I actually really do. </Rant> Ken --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAFyV=LkAoH=csddyebz7ubickl60npna-rb82cbokhn+9ap...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
