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Time for tech--->Do you STILL trust Microsoft to build antivirus support into Windows 8?

OK... Microsoft has announced that Windows 8 will have built in Anti-virus client. This sounds really cool because you don't have to worry about messing with installing anti-virus anymore right..... wrong! You still have to worry because Microsoft Security Essentials has declared Google chrome as a Trojan! Earlier today , we learned that the Microsoft Security Essentials tool began falsely identifying Google Chrome as a piece of malware (”PWS:Win32/Zbot”) and removing it from people’s computers. Lots of people are using Google Chrome. (I, however use and prefer Firefox though) This is also a weird piece of news.... IE's market share has fallen the most in a long time.... Google's is increasing They totally did this on purpose to get less people to use chrome by making it a trojan in MSE. This is very pathetic of MS and something an angsty teen would do, not a professional software company. Also what about people that want to use alternate media pla...

windows 8 metro Ui--->Love it or hate it?

if MS would work less on this UI crap and more on getting good features like better security, more recovery options for people getting infected with malware, better performance with hard drives, let the 3rd party themes work without UXTheme hacks, better networking, etc... then people would start to like MS more, but really this is so tiring. and this metro UI would look downright silly in my house.... I got a dark fancy atmosphere and this interface looks like it belongs in some hipster whitebox "modernist" apartment and also... we like our "old fashioned" guis they are stable and productive and we are all used to them and have them in muscle memory.... all these damn devs think they have to change them "cause they're bored" is not good! We get good results with our current GUIs. the current windows 7 interface is pretty and bright and approachable. this looks too edgy.... is microsoft trying to be like lady gaga or urban outfitters? that does n...