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Explorer Gets Lost

http://eletters.wnn.ziffdavis.com/zd/cts?d=75-19-1-1-618817-625-1

Every once in a while you come across a story which just makes you say "Ooog!" and reach for the nearest container of restorative beverage. This article on the re-integration of Internet Explorer with the Microsoft OS makes so much sense [and is so winningly annotated with links] that this development looks inevitable. Which means desktop bloat and increased operating system instability seem part of our Microsoft future.

Once again, when you look at the broader aspect of this, along with several other intiatives which Microsoft is taking which are hard to interpret as being in the customer's advantage, it makes the potential pain involved in switching to some other OS suddenly seem a lot more bearable.