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Real And Microsoft Close to Settlement
pdirty writes "Real networks may be close to winning a $750 million settlement agreement with Microsoft following Real's antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. The deal would include Microsoft paying cash as well as advertising for Real services, and products through channels such as MSN. Real is holding a conference call after the closing bell today to announce the details." From the article: "The deal follows on the heels of the European Commission appointing a watchdog last week to monitor Microsoft's compliance with its antitrust ruling. The pact is the latest in a string of payments by Microsoft to settle charges, including $750 million in 2003 to Time Warner to end charges about Microsoft acting to suppress Netscape, and $1.95 billion to Sun Microsystems to settle a suit by Sun over Microsoft's use of incompatible Java technology."
While we're bashing Real for being intrusive... does anyone know why Firefox insists on re-creating its icons whenever you install an update? I have Firefox defined to launch on a hotkey; I don't need a desktop icon, a quickbar icon, and a start menu group for it.
" I stopped using RealPlayer after the "G2" version came out (1998, I think?). "
Real may be favorite whipping boy around here, but honestly it does its job fairly well, at least on my PC, it installs fairly easily, and near as I can tell has removed all of the bad stuff from several years ago.
Personally I find Windows Media Player more annoying and tire of Quicktime insisting that I need to upgrade to Quicktime Pro.
Really folks, if you're going to slag the product, at least comment on a reasonably current version.
Three Squirrels