Dear Microsoft:
I am a systems engineer and I support just about every product you make. I manage hundreds of systems.

Recently, in an effort to monopolize on your cutomer base's frequent need to use your (horribly designed and slow) website, every new visit to just about any page of yours has prompted me to install Silverlight.

This is highly annoying.

Adding insult to injury, you decided to make it a whizz-bang nifty looking graphic instead of the standard ActiveX install. For us that remotely manage banks of remote servers daily, this means watching the slow graphic slowly crawl down the screen until its motion stops. This normally brings my customers' uplink to a crawl and I have to wait for it to completely load (which is probably 45 seconds but feels like an ETERNITY) before I get to click on the "Fuck Off" "No, Thanks" button.

Stop it. Take it off. Users don't want this, admins don't want this. None of us are interested in it at all. We understand your need to innovate and desire to shoehorn yourself into your competitors' territory through unfair practices, but we're jaded enough. We all hate your products enough already. It's bad enough supporting your products. Sure, your horrible software wins me a lot of business, which I thank you for. This pain, it's personal.

It's incredibly, for lack of a better word, lame.

The IT community also noticed how much slower your site runs since its cutover Server 2008. We have taken note of this. Please, don't do to us with Server 2008 what you did to us with Vista.

I hate you.

Sincerely,
Mark