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2008.03.21

I've crabbed about RealPlayer for YEARS. Ever since I was forced to use it for my undergrad program ten years ago I despised it and I never stopped. I could not abide the seemingly endless forms of checkboxes and radio buttons one was made to endure when uninstalling it. I felt their marketing people killed an otherwise nice technology by turning a simple uninstall into harrassment. It was such a profoundly negative experience that I absolutely refuse to use any of their products to this day — including Rhapsody. Today, though, others despise it for different reasons: it's badware.

2008.03.21

No developer in his or her right mind is a fan of a Web browser that is not standards-compliant. But we probably have demand for standards-compliant browsers to thank for Microsoft continuing to push the envelope of alienation by releasing Beta 1 of IE 8.


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