Glad To Be Out Of The Hive

I left Microsoft about nine months ago, and many days I miss it.  Great people, nice campus, a private office and free soda.

But today, I downloaded a new app to try out, and it required .NET Framework 3.0.  I did my search, went to Microsoft.com, and clicked download.  Nothing happened.  I clicked the “if this download doesn’t work” button.  Nothing happened.

Cynical bastard that I am, I opened up Internet Explorer (I usually run Firefox), pasted the link in, and it worked just fine.  Hmmmmm.

I looked around, and found a “UserAgentSwitcher” for Firefox — it lets me masquerade my browser as though it was IE 7.  Installed it.  Works fine to download, now.

Reminds me of when I was about 7 years old.  There was a little kid that had a bat, and a ball.  But he wasn’t willing to let anyone else touch either of them.  So he just stood out there in the rain, with tears streaming down his cheeks.  Eventually, he got all wrinkled and pruny.  He never married, had terrible athlete’s foot, and ended up as a precinct captain for the Democratic Party.

Ok, ok — I’m kidding.  He wasn’t crying.