As usual, due to time contraints, I only read first few sentences of eadon's rant.
But let me tell ya this: MSN and hotmail - they 'secretly' removed POP3 retrieval facility - one day it was there.. next day it was gone... whoever has hotmail account - prepare for the worst - they are preparing to charge people for it! I used hotmail to retrieve my POP3 - now I use yahoo instead. But general feeling is that if hotmail starts to charge... all others will! Just as well I have mail account with Tesco's! They don't wanna loose my shopping services!
Mozzilla - I found few bugs in it and it does annoy me. At the same time I will go out of my way to support something which is not M$. The best example for using Mozzilla is that at work, due to 'security settings' which I cannot change - when I use M$ Explorer I get 'Due to your security settings activeX components could not blah blah'... this happens every time I refresh the page... becuase other browsers do not use crap ActiveX - I don't get this annoying message ( which I cannot 'switch off').. Anything which is not M$ rules... Micro$oft turns us into prostitutes! Mark my words and remember what I said about hotmail - there was a lot of 'clean up' activity there lately.. prepare for the WORST! I am against PROSTUTUTION and DRUG PUSHING... hence I entirely agree with Eadon!
One remark about Opera.
The super-nice web browser Opera identifing itsels as MSIE 5.0 be default. In such situation we never will know
how often is Opera used...
You said it. I share your opinion 100% and use only Mozilla for browsing and emails. Good article. I sent the link to it to all my colleagues who were threatened by a new email virus just today as the company is MS evangelist. I like to wear my Mozilla t-shirt and promote the true quality a little among these MS guys. :-)