Application arrogance

By sindy | Published: October 31, 2003

When a software application’s default installation includes putting icons in your system tray and quick launch bar, presumably for “convenience.”

Applications guilty of this:

Quicktime
RealPlayer
Microsoft Office 2003 (as I recently discovered and which prompted this entry)

And the list goes on…

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