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• What I'd like to see is a prohibition on Microsoft incorporating multi-megabyte Easter Eggs and other stupid bloatware into Windows and Office.
  A typical computer with pre-installed Microsoft shoveware probably only has about 3 megabytes of hard drive space free because of flight simulators, pinball games, and multimedia credits Easter Eggs that nobody wants....
• Microsoft Mandatory Survey (#18) Customers who want to upgrade to Windows 98 Second Edition must now fill out a Microsoft survey online before they can order the bugfix/upgrade.
  Question 18: Witnessing the popularity of "Dilbert", Microsoft has plans to launch a syndicated comic strip featuring life at Microsoft....
• Some people see more in a walk around the block than others see in a trip around the world.
• Dread Questionmark Disease n. The result of saving HTML from Microsoft Word or some other program that uses the nonstandard Microsoft variant of Latin-1
  he symptom is that various of those nonstandard characters in positions 128-160 show up as questionmarks....
• Why would people waste their time developing viruses for Microsoft products when Microsoft does such a good job itself of adding in bugs which crash your system?
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• Linux Dominates Academic Research A recent survey of colleges and high school reveals that Linux, Open Source Software, and Microsoft are favorite topics for research projects.
  Internet Censorship, a popular topic for the past two years, was supplanted by Biology of Penguins as another of this year's most popular subjects for research papers....
• Microsoft ActivePromo Campaign: "Frequent Upgrade Points" Microsoft's PR masterminds are planning a massive marketing campaig
  code-named "ActivePromo 2000", to promote the upcoming release of Windows 2000 (scheduled for February 2001)....
• Stallman's Latest Proclamation Richard M. Stallman doesn't want you to say "Windows" anymore.
  He is now advocating that people call this OS by its real name...