{"id":592,"date":"2005-08-11T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=592"},"modified":"2005-08-11T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-11T08:23:00","slug":"piss-off-microsoft-outlook-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"Piss Off MICROSOFT OUTLOOK EXPRESS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just spent 30 minutes moving all of my mail files and newsgroups to Mozilla Thunderbird.  You wanna know why?  The final straw was when Microsoft decided that every single time I open Outlook Express that it should also start up AOL Instant Messenger.  Despite the fact that I have Trillian.  It was bad enough that it did not even have a proper search mechanism, but once Microsoft starts telling me what <font color=\"#ff0000\"><b><font size=\"+1\">other<\/font><\/b><\/font> programs I must have open in addition to the one I want, well they can just piss off.<\/p>\n<p>20 minutes into using Mozilla and all things are looking good.  They even have a feature that lets me have my RSS feeds inside the same application, so I can actually delete another application from my hard drive.  The address book isn&#8217;t all that it could be, but you know what, I have another program for that anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Piss off Microsoft.  Once you realise that you are not so invincible that you can force users to use programs they don&#8217;t want, then maybe you&#8217;ll get me back as a customer.  I&#8217;ve moved to Firefox and Thunderbird and I am not looking back.<\/p>\n<p>Asshats, you brought this disgruntled customer on yourself.  Keep fucking around and I&#8217;ll just port everything over to Linux and be done with Microsoft once and for all.  And I&#8217;ll make sure to bring all of my tech-saavy friends in my personal life and business life with me!<\/p>\n<p>Grrrrrr&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just spent 30 minutes moving all of my mail files and newsgroups to Mozilla Thunderbird. You wanna know why? The final straw was when Microsoft decided that every single time I open Outlook Express that it should also start up AOL Instant Messenger. Despite the fact that I have Trillian. It was bad enough &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=592\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Piss Off MICROSOFT OUTLOOK EXPRESS!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}