Funny Anti-Microsoft Pictures
Those of you who hate Microsoft as much as I do will find these images hilarious. They are parodies of Microsoft product advertisements and other funny images against Microsoft.
By the way, none of these images are in GIF format. They are in PNG, MNG, or JPG. Most, if not all, modern graphical browsers support JPG and PNG (contrary to popular belief), but some proprietary ones might not support MNG. For those of you who cannot view the animated images on this site, my only advice to you is to GET A GOOD BROWSER! I will NOT provide these images in GIF format. A good free/open-source browser that works on all modern operating systems, including Linux and Windows, and supports MNG is Mozilla. See the end of this page a more detailed rant on GIF.
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is an image format invented by (I think) Compuserve, but it was covered by a Unisys patent because it uses a compression formula called LZW (Lempel-Ziv-Welsh, the inventors of the algorithm). GIF images have lossless compression and support animated images (in fact, most of the animated pictures you come across on the Internet are in GIF or Macromedia SWF (Shockwave Flash) format). Even though the LZW patent expired earlier in 2004, I still will not provide images in GIF format because the GIF format, being developed in circa 1989, is, as far as I'm concerned, obsolete. Instead of GIF images, the images on this website that I post are in PNG (pronounced "ping"), MNG (pronounced "ming"), or JPEG (pronounced "jay-peg"), which are all superior to GIF and patent-free. Most modern browsers support PNG and MNG, contrary to popular belief (which is why such an obsolete format is still popular on the Internet). PNG (Portable Network Graphics) was developed as a replacement for non-animated GIF images. It uses the same compression that ZIP files use (Deflate, or LZ77) which is better than LZW and lossless, and it supports up to 16,777,216 colors instead of the 256 that GIF supports. MNG (Multi-image Network Graphics) is based on PNG but supports animation. GIF images can be converted to PNG and MNG without any loss of information (unless an animated GIF is converted to PNG instead of MNG) using a program such as the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) or Image Magick's 'convert' utility. (Yes, they're both free/open-source software. They both work on Linux and other Unix systems as well as Windows.) JPEG is a popular format that supports photo-realistic quality for photographs in a small file size, but it is lossy (some image information is thrown away to make the file smaller). JPEG is good for photos, but it is not good for screenshots (very noticeable artifacts appear due to the lossy compression). Visit http://www.burnallgifs.org for a more detailed explanation.