Windows and the start menu
I just noticed this little trick of Microsoft to push its apps, here goes: I run OpenOffice Writer instead of Microsoft's Word because of the equation editor. The equation editor in openoffice lets me take notes in math class, thats how cool it is. With Microsoft's Equation Editor I spend all my time with my mouse, click click clicking my life away trying to build simple equations. In any event, I just popped open my start menu to open it again and walaa, I have an entry for Microsoft Word and Openoffice.org Writer. Hold on, you might be saying, isn't that normal? Well, this is in the most recently used section of the Start Menu, not the programs folder that I'm seeing this. And oddly, even though I use OpenOffice way more than I have used Word in the past, Windows decided to put Microsoft Word on top. I guess its more important than these other applications I have. Hell, I pull open Internet Explorer once in a blue moon and it jumps up to #2 or #3 in this list. So, I really do think that Microsoft is pushing their applications, by weighting them higher, than other applications that you use more often.
(They're out to get us all!)