Sony Retracts Bloatware Removal Fee

-from The Washington Post
So A few days ago Sony announced that they wouldn’t instal all the crappy software that slows down for computer slower than molasses in the Alaskan winter. The catch? They would do that for 50 buck. Yep, you pay them not to instal something on your computer. Well Today they announced that they are no longer charging you the $50. All because people were angry about it. I guess the power of the people finally worked for once. Click the link at the top for more info.

Mozilla CEO: Apple Auto-Installing Safari 3.1 “Borders on Malware”

-From Gizmodo and Znet

So most of you probably saw the thrust that the apple auto updater pushed on windows machines even if they didn’t have Safari already installed. This was bold on apple’s part in my opinion, even through I always says cancel.
This what Mozilla CEO John Lilly had to say about it

-from John Lilly’s Blog

What Apple is doing now with their Apple Software Update on Windows is wrong. It undermines the trust relationship great companies have with their customers, and that’s bad — not just for Apple, but for the security of the whole Web. What they did yesterday was to use their updater for iTunes to also install their Safari Web browser –what follows is some background and analysis.

What do you guys think of this push by Apple?
Also before I forget check out the gizmodo link for a nice poll on the topic

MacBook Air reviewed… as a Windows machine

-From xbit
Those new tiny MacBooks are out and about in the world now. So the guys at Xbit decided to run test vista on them and it runs about the same as OS X. After the troublesome task of wiping OS X from the machine. So check out the link for more info, I’m sure you’ll like it.