Not being Microsoft-haters, we do have a hard time defending some of their more "transparent" moves. The Seattle Don has decided to upgrade its Windows XP Game Advisor. The tool holds your hand through the entire process of buying a game. It shows you screenshots and info about the game, points out demo downloads, checks your system for compatibility and, of course, offers the game for sale. This smacks of another one of those MS projects that are designed to collect customer behavior data; only to be abandoned when it's served its purpose. Can you say Xbox 2?
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