No doubt having read yesterday’s post, the Redmond Mob decided I needed to be taught a lesson. Now, what’s the quickest way to hose somebody’s day in a contemporary office environment?

Why, screw up his e-mail, of course. (I suppose a better, more comprehensive method would be to bork his domain controller, but thankfully we’re not in an AD environment here.)

Today my morning routine went like this:

1. Run in the door, start the MBP.
2. Launch Entourage.
3. Watch as Microsoft AutoUpdate launches. AutoUpdate wants me to quit Entourage to continue. Seems reasonable. I do so.
4. Auto-Update keeps displaying the dialog about quitting Entourage despite my just having quit the application.
5. I dismiss the dialog, but it reappears about twenty times, each time halting the AutoUpdate process.
6. After much curse-laden clicking, AutoUpdate is finally satisfied that Entourage has indeed been quit. The update process runs, then beachballs and hangs, requiring a Force-Quit.
7. Ha ha! Many laffs are now for the having. Entourage is gone. As in rm -fP gone.

Arrrrgh!