>OK. Will you settle for this? -- Microsoft prohibits any browser other than IE from updating Visual Studio. To me you are making a distinction without a difference.
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>This really isn't worth pursuing, is it? I know you have a pro-Microsoft tilt, but why shouldn't you? Microsoft and its products have been good to you. Me, too. I just don't like it when they abuse their monopoly power. This is why I prefer to use competing products, other things being more or less equal.

I agree with you to a point. My dislike begins a tad earlier - I don't like that they have such a power in the first place, and I even less like how they acquired it. And the least I like is how better products than theirs have vanished.

On the bright side, Microsoft has Fox.