Amazon(warning!) movie download service vs. Apple's

[redrumloa]

CNET Alpha Blog: absolutely do not try Amazon Unbox

Merritt writes, "So, in summary, to be allowed the privilege of purchasing a video that I can't burn to DVD and can't watch on my iPod, I have to allow a program to hijack my start-up and force me to login to uninstall it? No way. Sorry, Amazon. I love a lot of what you do, but I will absolutely not recommend this service."

I'd wait until Tuesday when Apple is expected to launch their new movie download service, and new widescreen Video iPods.

[motorollin]

I found this part quite worrying:

... ADVWindowsClientService.exe is connecting to the Net without your knowledge, even when uninstalling

Hmmmm, maybe Brian Valentine is teaching Amazon the Microsoft way :roll:

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[adolescent]

And iTunes doesn't connect to the internet "without your knowledge", run at startup, etc.?  Sounds like the author is a bit Apple biased.  

The fact that he couldn't stop/disable a service tells me he's not much of a Windows user at all.  

[LoadWB]

adolescent wrote:
The fact that he couldn't stop/disable a service tells me he's not much of a Windows user at all.  

To me, the fact that he uses MSCONFIG to do this work rather than as a reference, then actually do the work (properly) himself tells me this story.  MSCONFIG does not display all of the potential hiding places -- ActiveX cache is one of them, the Shell registry is another, and so on.

Windows Defender or a combination of tools from SysInternals are much better suited for this kind of work.