P.S.

Microsoft, just when I think I’m finished telling you everything, more things pop up, possibly from the updates you send me, or possibly just that I haven’t yet experienced your entire repertoire. I don’t know.

Here’s an unnecessary message you send sometimes when I am opening an email:

“Your current security setting prohibit running Active X controls on this page. As a result, the page may not display correctly.�

This is a message I would rather skip for five (5) logical reasons:

1. Every time I get this message, it’s not true. Every time every graphic or whatever shows just fine.

2. Even if every graphic didn’t show up, there is nothing you give me to do about it.

3. Even if every graphic didn’t show, when I open the email, I would find out soon enough. You don’t have to tell me in advance. I can find out for myself.

4. I don’t care anyway whether it shows or not. I have bigger things on my mind.

5. Do you realize that with messages like this that you give me something else to do? You force me to respond. I have to press OK or check a Yes or a No. Wouldn’t you like to save me from another press of the keys? I do ten million a day as it is.

Another thing I’m noticing that I could do without — sometimes you send me an extra email that is all about a spam message in my inbox. You give all the details about why it is spam. You tell me more than I care to know. What do I need this message of yours for at all? You are just giving me another thing to delete. Dear dear Microsoft, I’m not going to open any spam. I wish you would have a little confidence in me.

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this to you before or not. In any case, when I have responded to an email, and I delete it from my inbox, and it is now in my delete folder, and when I press Delete again, I get the inevitable message:

“Are you sure you want to delete this message?”

Forced to press Yes, I click Yes, and then, half the time, you tell me the message has already been deleted. Perhaps I did delete it with the X on the top banner. Still, I wish you would make up your mind.

With love and blessings,

Your friend,

Gloria