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So as I Google around the web searching for freebie clip arts to use on my soon to use promotional posters, I come across (actually.. first query result) Microsoft’s own Office Online graphic repository.  Seems rather harmless, let’s give it a shot!

Oh the misery that ensued.

After using a rather weak search function (why is ‘Search’ such a difficult endeavor for MS?), I take my picks and add them to my basket.  Then comes the kicker (in the crotch)… the whole point of this was to get users to use MS’s Clip Organizer bloatware, which I wasn’t even aware I had.

The best part of all, is that after the download, Microsoft’s Clip Organizer threw a ‘catastrophic failure’.  Even forgoing the trusty awesomeness that is Mozilla’s FireFox, and ‘downgrading’ to use Microsoft’s very own POS Internet Explorer… ‘catastrophic failure’ x2.

Honestly.  How difficult is it… to download <1MB of clip art?

Microsoft = 0×8000FFFF

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