I sell a lot on eBay and I print my own shipping labels on my home/office printer... it saves me a lot of time at the Post Office and also saves me about 10% on postage. The other day I had an especially large package to ship so I decided to ship it via UPS which is much cheaper than the USPS when shipping large boxes. When I went to print the UPS label I had a problem. The label that came out of the printer was all jumbled up and overwritten on the left side of the label. No problem... I just printer another one... with the same result. Wow. I have an account with UPS so I made the phone call to see what the problem might be. Well, as it turns out, Microsoft Internet Explorer is not compatible with the label printing program that UPS uses. I had to switch to Mozilla Firefox as my browser in order to print the label. No problem... all's well that ends well, I guess.
Now, I understand that this could be a problem on the UPS end of things, but I have also been having other new and recent problems with Internet Explorer. After some automatic updates it seems that I am now using I.E. 10, and I have found several bugs in it already. Don't ask if I tried to report these bugs to Microsoft. Actually, I did, but I couldn't even understand the guys on the other end of the customer support line. Yes, guys... plural. I called twice and I believe I was speaking to guys to whom English is a second language... or third... or fourth. I got pretty darn frustrated so I did some research, which always helps give me peace of mind. lol. What I found out is that it is virtually impossible to report a bug to Microsoft. It is so frustrating that I won't even go into it. If you really want to get upset just "Google" the words Microsoft bug report. I read where one guy even paid $35 to register his complaint. You can look the details up for yourself. Yes, there are two sides to every story. The only problem is that this is a story that repeats itself "ad nauseum."
I have used Google Chrome as my default browser and yes it is faster than Internet Explorer but there are a couple of I.E. features that I guess I have grown so accustomed to using that I hate to make the switch permanently. Mozilla Firefox is a good browser but there is a definite learning curve involved in using it. I may give it a test drive... who knows?
All I can say for sure is that lately Microsoft had been very disappointing for me. Whatever.
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