Microsoft is advertising their MSN toolbar for their Internet Explorer web browser.
I love how they capitalize “FREE”. Big deal! As if anyone would pay for that junk (unfortunately, someone would…) No company would ever dream of charging for a toolbar which advertises their search engine. It’s a quest for desktop space on consumer computers, and they make it sound like something good. It’s absolute junk. Don’t touch it, whatever you do, do not touch MSN! Let me explain. Internet Explorer is flawed – one major lacking feature is its unability to deal with popup ads. It is a fault in their browser and they make it sound like the fix is some amazing new feature. Stupid marketing. It’s so dang misleading – the worst part being that the general public believes it. Kind of like Microsoft’s “Get the Facts” Windows vs. Linux campaign.
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TechTV has been going through a lot lately. Leo Laporte, host of the only decent show on the channel, reports in his blog that Comcast has fired the entire staff of TechTV. The only thing TechTV had is the show Leo once hosted, The ScreenSavers. Call for Help is nice on some days, but I’ve heard bogus and misleading information on it more than once. Overall, I wonder what Leo thinks of it and what’s going to happen to him. I really respect him – he’s great at talking about computers on TV.
Users that bend a DVD to remove it from a hard-gripping case are practically begging for this problem, because flexing the disc puts strain on the glue.
Looks like Google is having some problems with orkut… and they’re advertising this in AdWords. Strange…
