buter's BABY blog

That last comment about using writely reminded me of the last time I experienced the joys of beta software.

Here is a transcription of a conversation that took place between D™ and me recently. Hang on, that implies there was actual talking going on that needed to be transcribed. In fact this was an email conversation. Anyway, whatever, here goes:

1. Me

YYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY

my links now work.

bloody stupid IE7 beta preview thing.

If you have:
1. Firefox as your default browser
2. MS Outlook 2000 (presumably also outlook express) - maybe other versions, whatever
3. IE7 beta 2 installed
4. Oh but then you have to reset FF as your default browser coz IE doesn't even ask, it just sets itself...
then: when you click a link in outlook you either get nothing, nada, zip zilch, not a thing, or you get an explorer window into C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\MAPI\1033\nt - wtf?

So then after a little bit of a hunt around MS forums I thought it might be something in MAPI or DDE or some such, but without running registry-killing fixmapi I thought I'll just check the forums. And lo and behold someone else had it. Love the internet.

So now I've uninstalled IE7 and things are all better. You can shove your beta software up your arse, microsoft. (uninstalling IE7 returns me to IE6 and I can cope with that thankyou very much).

2. D™

two words
well 2 acronyms
. . . well 6 words . . .
and some punctuation

ie7? wtf?

3. Me

yessm? didn't you know about microsoft's attempt at tabbed browser goodness? internet exploiter 7 (which is now in beta2, whatever that is).

Remind me again why I don't use beta software.

:)

4. D™

Because you write betas and you know what unwholesome goodness goes into them
And besides, betas are bad for you and they rot your teeth.

He's full of wisdom.