Microsoft-Yahoo: A bid too far

Steve Yelvington’s got it right:

Why does Microsoft want Yahoo, anyway? Here’s why: It’s four o’clock in the afternoon for the Microsoft software empire. At four o’clock there’s plenty of daylight left, but night is on the way.  

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Real badware

That ain’t no innovative headline, believe me.

It is in fact about RealPlayer. RealPlayer 10.5 to be precise.

According to StopBadware.org, 10.5 “is badware because it fails to accurately and completely disclose the fact that it installs advertising software on the user’s computer.”

What’s also bad, or should we say as worse, is it installs “Rhapsody Player Engine software, and fails to remove this software when RealPlayer is uninstalled.”

Despite this Firefox promotes in as plug-in.

Beware!

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