NPR's Car Talk Dumping RealMedia

olcrazypete writes: "Click and Clack are apparently fed up with Real Networks. They have switched to Windows Media Player format. 'Why? Because, for a long time, we've had tons of complaints about RealNetworks. And the one that ticks us off the most is the perceived trickery they use to sell their premium products. This is just our opinion, mind you, but it's shared by enough of our listeners, that we finally decided to take action.' The whole story is here . My favorite line: 'It stinks so much that it even makes Microsoft look good by comparison. That's something, huh?'"

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[nolife]

If you read here long enough or hang with any specific group of tech type people in the real world, you would find out what frustrations and experience individuals have with MS or any company for that matter. Wether you agree with their individual opinions on what bothers them is up to you. There is no one thing that MS does that everyone here does not like (although there are trends). Slashdot readers and posters can not be globbed under one set of general dislikes and likes. Bottom line, people have been dealing with MS for years in many capacities (administration, end users, tech support, purchasing, development, integration, competing products etc...), they have formed an opinion on the company based on past experience. There is no bulleted list that someone could post that describes what an individual likes and dislikes about MS that would apply to everyone.
I work with people that administer MS networks very well, they have very little to complain about with MS, oddly enough, every one of them has NEVER used anything else and probably don't know what CLI means either.. You can take that either way.