Did Mark Zuckerberg really say "Sometimes the squirrel dying in your front yard is more relevant than the people dying in Africa."... where is this quote from? I did a cursory search of the internet and couldn't find it.

thanks.

Gladstone: [...] "Everyone who ever bought a Microsoft product had alternatives."

Not actually true. For many years, I couldn't buy PC hardware with no OS installed on it, even if I intended to install an Open Source Software OS like Linux on it... hence I was paying the licensing fees for software which I had no intention of using, and my first act was to be erasing it.

This is not an alternative: Microsoft is being paid for a Windows user license, regardless of whether the end-user intends to use it or not.

Microsoft IIS was also infamous for publishing Web content that wouldn't render properly (or perhaps not at all) on non-IE browsers.

Again, that's not a choice. If the web content you're accessing is your bank, a government agency, your employer, etc. then going to another "alternative" website isn't an option.