vortmax - i agree with you whole-heartedly.
firefox is awesome. and from what i always hear about all the updates and everything (as i have not used it for long) it seems like the designers of it actually care about the people using it, thus creating the updates and everything
i know from experience microsoft does not care about anyone or anything but money
they have virtually no tech support that is actually free. and if you did not go to a store or something, and pay full price for the OS, like say it came on your computer, they don't care. they tell you to call your manufacturer.
i have had people call in and talk to me, that have just gotten off the phone with microsoft. and they have forgotten their password for windows, or there is a missing dll file, and microsoft found out that it was installed with their computer, told the people, not our problem, call them
microsoft is almost as bad as AOL in my opinion. aol (shiver)