Microsoft
has responded to charges that the company is
giving favored treatment to spyware-maker Claria, which the company is said to be interested in purchasing. The charges stem from changes made to Microsoft's AntiSpyware product, which previously flagged Claria's products for deletion, and now gives them a pass (though it still gives users the option to delete them). According to Microsoft, the change is simply part of efforts to be "fair and consistent with how Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) handles similar software from other vendors." The company also admitted that while Claria had asked Microsoft to reconsider its classification of the spyware-vendor's products, "absolutely no exceptions were made for Claria."
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
