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Font smoothing: a not-so-sharp distinction
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
I’m just road-testing Safari 4, and I’ve come across this interesting claim on the What’s New in Safari page:
“Safari now uses Windows standard fonts, but you can choose to use Apple’s crisp anti-aliased fonts if you prefer.”
Now, if you didn’t know any better, wouldn’t you take that to mean that Windows’ fonts aren’t anti-aliased? And that this was a special way in which only Safari could improve your life? Of course, you and I do know better, but… well, the libel laws of this country restrain me from further comment. (more…)
Cheeky Sun throws in OpenOffice with Java
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Sun, which has spent the past decade constantly moaning about the worst excesses of Microsoft’s behaviour, is clearly not averse to employing underhand tactics of its own.
Having spent the past couple of days wilfully ignoring the Java update nagging away in my System Tray, I finally relented and installed the latest version, only to be confronted with the following screen:
Admittedly, Sun was only trying to force the OpenOffice installer on me, rather than automatically downloading the hundreds of megabytes that comprise the full suite. But after the furore caused when Apple automatically ticked the Safari installation with iTunes updates earlier this year, it’s amazing that companies are still resorting to such cheap tricks.
Unbundle me
Friday, May 9th, 2008
I installed Windows XP SP3 on my home PC this morning. The process went smoothly, and surprisingly quickly; but after the inevitable reboot a screen came up pestering me to turn on automatic updates. This I do not appreciate.
It’s not that I think automatic updates are necessarily a bad idea.* But why bug me about it now? I can only surmise that Microsoft really hates the fact that I’ve chosen to manage my own computer; so they’ve decided to tack a nuisance requester onto an unrelated process in the hope of nagging me into quiescence.
This sort of opportunistic piggybacking used to be the preserve of spyware. But, sad to say, these days I’m increasingly finding unrelated crap bundled into otherwise legitimate packages. (more…)
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