May 23, 2003

  • Media Player Schmedia Player


    "Updates are available to make your hardware even more obsolete and make it possible for us to capture even more marketing information from your activities without notifying you. Would you like to continue?"


    "Yes"              "No"


     


    I truly busted Microsoft today, not like it matters even in the most cursory of ways, but I'm arranging my wfm files for about 2 hours. I finally get a cd together that I want to burn, and by the time it finishes 'converting' the 3rd song that DAMN window comes up about 'new updates' for windows media player would  you like to install them now?


    What *now*?...you mean RIGHT now? This very second...don't wait until the conversion or burn process completes..oh of course not...how silly of me, no we can't have that...stop everything you're doing and download our latest coagulation of crap to slap  onto our already bulbous and oozing code like wad of wet modeling clay on the side of Jabba The Hutt's ass. Sure, nothing I was doing was more important than what MICROSOFT wants that's for damn sure! I'll just click on yes, put on some Tracey Chapman and beat the crap out of myself, shall I? CCCHRRRRRRIST!!!!!!!


    Can it be ANY more obvious that this little watchdog reports back to the mothership every time you burn a song to a cd? Oh yea, and it checked for updates while it was walking by the fridge, why not. Oh and why not interrupt that very process with a popup window that advertises to 'upgrade' the very code you're running at the time. 


    Don't get me wrong, I knew it was going on, and when, and where... LONG before now. I mean,  just because you've been cleaning up the dog turds for months and you know he's been eating out of the litterbox doesn't mean that catching him taking a crap in your shoes while you're wearing them with a Dolly Madison dusting of litter still on his nose isn't enough to make anyone a bit flabbergasted even with the painfully obvious.


    I'm filling out a virus report on Norton's web site...just to see what kind of reaction I get.