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...Wants to Be a Millionaire, take out a loan and spend anyway--as though you never even needed a lifeline. Trouble is, many of us do need a lifeline desperately. Consumers are up to their eyeballs in debt, and the strain shows. Personal bankruptcies, credit-card debt in default and installment loans more than 60 days past due are all at record highs...
Lately, though, installing software feels like a cross between talking to a telemarketer at dinner and a national referendum on health care. Do you want the program to be your default browser? Do you want to overwrite an earlier version of DirectX? Do you want to register online now or the next time you reboot, or should we remind you every two weeks for the rest of your life...
...behalf of certain users who upgraded to Windows version 5.0 and found they were then unable to connect to any other Internet-service provider. Apparently some of these folks got confused during the installation process when asked via a pop-up window, "Would you like AOL to be your default Internet connection for Web pages, newsgroups and e-mail?" The right answer for them--and probably for most people who use a Net-service provider in addition to AOL--would have been no. Indeed, the default is no, and if they had just ignored the question altogether and hit return...
...blue text to launch your browser automatically and go to the website. This was a good thing; it made life easier. But for it to work, Windows needed to know how to get to the Internet on your computer. That's why this business of designating a default browser, an e-mail program and a newsgroup reader is relevant when you add a piece of software, such as 5.0, that does any of those things...
...Head by Default...