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Living With Microsoft
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<p>In today’s episode of the Microsoft follies, we learned that<br />
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<a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-957704.html">Media Player 9<br />
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is un-uninstallable</a>. Deliberately.</p>
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<p>A A Microsoft spokesthing confirmed that Media Player 9 is so deeply<br />
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integrated into the operating system that it cannot be removed without<br />
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doing a `system restore’. Which, incidentally, will wipe out your<br />
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Office installation.</p>
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<p>It’s at times like this that, contemplating Microsoft users, one<br />
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feels as though one is wandering among people lashing themselves with<br />
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stinging nettles until blood runs off them in rivulets. One wants to<br />
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know why they don’t just stop. One is told “But it’s the<br />
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<em>standard</em>!”</p>
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<p>One shakes one’s head bemusedly.</p>
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<p>They pay heavily for the privilege of lashing themselves, too.<br />
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Except for those blessed, blissful occasions on which they pay still<br />
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more, grease themselves, bend over, and prepare to be buggered by a<br />
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chainsaw. That’s called a “System Upgrade”.</p>
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<p>One contemplates the uptime figures on one’s Linux box and<br />
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feels — admit it! — a bit smug.</p>
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<p><a href="http://enetation.co.uk/comments.php?user=esr&commentid=81716506">Comment</a></p>
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