Here’s another idiotic example of Microsoft’s self-love of complexity: when a user has IE send an email including the currently viewed URL, IE actually includes a file attachment with a .url extension to the mail message instead of simply including the text in the message body. Our anti-spam system quarantines and deletes all of these stupid attachments (as recommended practice – even Microsoft warns that such attachments may potentially be used maliciously …)

Unfortunately most Microsoft shops buy into the fact that it is simply easier to give into Microsoft’s unified (and only) way of doing things, whether they like it or not. (Your basic Microsoft end-user doesn’t have a clue what is going on other than the fact if the computer system isn’t configured *exactly* how Microsoft intended then things tend not to work …).