No, I don’t want your browser bar.
\nNo, I don’t want your anti-spyware software.
\nNo, I don’t want my homepage changed.
\nNo, I don’t want your mail component.
\nNo, I don’t want your ‘daily news’ when I log in.
\nNo, I’d rather not have cute animated graphics replace my ‘:-)’
\nNo, I’d rather you didn’t put your DLLs in C:\/windows\/system32. They belong in your application’s directory.
\nIf you can get away with not registering them, I’d rather you didn’t do that either.
\nNo, I’d rather you didn’t store your information in the registry. I hate the registry, and would rather have a bunch of little configuration databases, one per application, instead.
\nNo, I don’t want you to start by default. I’ll *tell* you if I want you to start when the computer boots.
\nNo, I don’t want to upgrade to Vista to get new features.
\nNo, I don’t want you to check for upgrades by default. I’ll *tell* you if I want you to stay updated.
\nNo, I don’t want to restart my browser, my computer, or anything else. For that matter, you’re a IM client, what are you doing affecting my browser in any way?
\nNo, I don’t think it’s reasonable for the ‘default install’ to break my web browser.
\nNo, I don’t want to pay 2 cents a minute for a service that many others, including Skype, provide for free.<\/p>\n
I think I’ve decided Skype is the ultimate IM:<\/p>\n
1) It does voice, video, file transfer, and tex
\n2) By default, it doesn’t start with the computer
\n3) It doesn’t attempt to do anything funny to my web browser. It’s a IM, it knows it’s a IM, and it stays there
\n4) It has sane settings right out of the box<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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