In 2003, a Windows user who simply wanted to install Microsoft Moviemaker ran into the non-functioning Windows hell that plagues – well, nearly all Windows users. 

No, an everday rant like this isn't big news, but it's worth a read as a look at what's seriously wrong with the Windows experience. Things like this: "Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up. But that is just the start of the crap..."

(I know, life isn't perfect across the street in Macland, but 99.9% of the time, this sort of software update is about as eventful on a Mac as eating a peach. Linux users, how about you?) 

Oh, by the way, who was the guy who couldn't get Windows to work? Name's Bill Gates, or something like that. Not that it matters.

The email, as reported by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
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Funny tech news has been sparse. This one, though, just cracked me up:

All Your Coffee Are Belong To Us

"...the Jura F90 Coffee maker, with its honest-to-God Jura Internet Connection Kit, can be taken over by a remote attacker, who can cause the coffee to be weaker or stronger..."

The next Hollywood "Internets" flick: Not content with making our traffic signals go crazy and bringing down our computerized financial systems, evil foreign hackers are now toying with American hackers' caffeine supply...

Microsoft Acquires Navic Networks

What's funny about that? Nothing, really. I just liked the reporter's sentence below:

"The technical term for what Microsoft has achieved in search (at least in comparison to Google) is "squat." "

A MS exec only tried to inject a little more comedy, by stating:
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