Most of you, at least those of you who were born and educated in the United States, probably know that under normal circumstances, you’re protected from warantless searches and seizures. If you’re a citizen of the United States, do you think that seizing personal information about you without your knowledge and without a warrant or due process violates… Read More »
Perion, IncrediMail’s other name, is notorious for bundled software – Smilebox and worst of all Sweet IM, announced today the release of a program to manage add-ons and extensions in browsers. This beats all! It’s like McDonald’s releasing a book, “The Guide to Healthy Eating”, or Bernie Madoff writing “How to Invest and Get Rich Legally”. You have… Read More »
What the heck is going on with Microsoft? After terrible feedback on its intentional omission of its iconic start button on Windows 8, Microsoft snivels and releases a start button on Windows 8.1. Kind of like saying “let them eat cake!” But, who was the idiot at Microsoft who decided that when you click the start button on… Read More »
On the heels of cleaning up the mess from earlier patch horrors, Microsoft finds itself under criticsm for seriously bothing another patch, labeled as “critical” by the Microsoft Windows update team. Here are the details from our source: “Microsoft hasn’t yet acknowledged Win7 patch KB 2803821 and WinXP patch KB 2834904, which have spawned complaints about top half… Read More »
We’ve been warning you about IncrediMail’s incredible trip on the slippery slope into the realm of malware, adware, and spyware. And we’ve taken a lot of heat for it, because several years ago we did recommend IncrediMail when it was owned by a different company and had not yet started it’s free fall into dark side. If any… Read More »
“Microsoft’s former head of Windows 8 development has agreed not to badmouth Microsoft or work for some of its competitors and in return will receive a payout for unvested stock in the company, according to a regulatory filing Wednesday. The “retirement agreement” with Steven Sinofsky, who left Microsoft in November after leading the development of its Windows 8… Read More »