Life Outside Microsoft

So I’ve been out of the womb for about a month now.  What’s it like?  I can finally open my eyes to non-Microsoft stuff and not feel guilt.  How does that feel?  Amazing. 

I’d played with Firefox a little while I was part of the collective, but didn’t get into it much.  Man is it nice.  I’d though IE7 was a nice step up, but not really.  My only complaint is it is a bit slow to load.

My biggest eye opener has been Google Reader.  Someone showed me it very early one (I’d say at least a year ago) and I didn’t like it at all.  The whole “one stream” of new items wasn’t for me.  Since I’ve been searching for a new news reader I thought I kick the tire on it.  Color me impressed - especially with the keyboard interface.  Yeah, I’m probably late to the game here, but I’m slowly opening my eyes to the world outside.