I couldn’t help but get a chuckle out of this: I posted the entry about the It’s Rule and then today I was typing and look what the Word Grammar checker (manifested inside Outlook 2007) told me to to:

It’s wrong in suggesting that I not use “it’s” since I am saying “…the next email I get it is fixed again.” In retrospect I probably should have had a comma after “get”, but I doubt that would have changed the flag.

Well, it’s about a year too late, but Microsoft has finally admitted that Firefox is a serious browser player in the market and if they want to claim that a majority of the Web can access Windows Media content, they have to have a real Windows Media Player plug-in for it. Now here it is. I haven’t tried it yet, but I assume it will be just as seamless as the way WMP works with IE today. [Source]

I’m completely baffled. I thought that the screwy keyboard character issue was restricted just to Firefox, but this morning I saw the same problem with Outlook 2007 when I tried to type a question mark I’d get an “ѐ” character. The same problem cropped up in Firefox, but in a Windows Live Messenger chat window I had no problem getting a question mark? I’m officially getting ticked off at this problem…what kind of a problem would effect keyboard input on a per-application basis rather than system wide? Restarting Outlook fixed the problem, but that doesn’t help me narrow down what’s causing it.