This reminds me of their "Message Center," which I've yet to figure out how to disable. Every time the app loads (and often when just lurking in the background), a window pops up in the bottom right over the systray informing the user of updates, news, or what-have-you.
Imagine if every piece of freeware (and I use the term lightly these days) did this. Well, a lot do already. But seriously -- if AIM, RealPlayer, Quicktime, Winamp, Winzip, and other necessities all started doing this, the desktop would be a mess of crap far more than it is now.
The hard part is that sometimes, you just can't get around these proprietary apps like RealPlayer and Quicktime without going with a buggy 3rd-party player.
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This reminds me of their "Message Center," which I've yet to figure out how to disable. Every time the app loads (and often when just lurking in the background), a window pops up in the bottom right over the systray informing the user of updates, news, or what-have-you.
Imagine if every piece of freeware (and I use the term lightly these days) did this. Well, a lot do already. But seriously -- if AIM, RealPlayer, Quicktime, Winamp, Winzip, and other necessities all started doing this, the desktop would be a mess of crap far more than it is now.
The hard part is that sometimes, you just can't get around these proprietary apps like RealPlayer and Quicktime without going with a buggy 3rd-party player.