Story: Microsoft hits back at Opera antitrust claims

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Any browser on any machine

I know about trashing a new machine! My present one, a Mesh something or other, came with IE and OE. Within a few days there came a notification of an update for IE. I clicked on the appropriate button and all hell was let loose - pages of filth being the most prolific, but lots of other crap too. I could not use the machine for anything else, because to touch any key evoked all of the above. Switching off and on again did nothing to improve matters, so I F Disked and reinstalled XP. All OK for a while then I got a Trojan containing more filth. This time my new Anti-virus programme kicked in and quarantined the lot. Next, I downloaded SP2 - blue screens every few minutes!!!!! F disked again and this time SP2 went in OK. I shifted to Firefox (new to me then), and Thunderbird. Since then I have not looked back. Oh yes, I did try Linux on my previous machine (now five years old) but found I couldn't control the myriad interface screens which, with no provocation, kept sliding off to the right to be replaced with yet another interface - and so on ad nauseum. Back to Windows 98, Firefox and Thunderbird - no more problems.

Sorry to go on........!

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