A little bit of defiance
I have installed Mozilla Firefox on both my PC at home and work. I took the momentous step of making it the default browser. It seems that lately I've been running into too many instances where IE won't work on certain web pages for reasons that I can't fathom. Even after resetting all the options to default, clearing cache and cookies, and even rebooting it would still not work. I could even have two computers that are pretty much the same and it would work on one, but not the other.
I guess I'm either losing my passion or patience for Help Desk work, because I used to sit and try to figure these things out or go out on the Internet and look them up. Now, I'm more inclined to say, "I don't have time for this." And find a different way to do it. I've never been a Microsoft fanboy, but neither have I been a fanatical naysayer. I've just always went along and accepted, and appreciated, the fact that MS has made things work togetherÂ…at least a lot better than when I first started doing all of this. I remember the days in the early 90's of three or four different OS's and quite frankly I didn't think it added anything to the industry.
So I've taken the small step of going to a non-MS browser, which I haven't done since Netscape 4.x. It doesn't feel defiant, but then since it looks almost exactly like IE I'm inclined to just go with it. I find it amusing and somewhat ironic that in order for alternative software to be successful it has to look like and function like what it's trying to replace. One day MS may loose it's god like status and Windows will fall behind Linux, but I have the feeling that it will be with us in spirit for a long, long time.