The app forces you to go through a cloying start-up wizard, which basically tries to lock you into an automated programming service called StarSight, then performs a scan of available channels. Unfortunately, in the static-filled canyons of Vermont, my PC didn't receive any channels well enough for the scanner to recognize, and my lack of Internet access made the StarSight service useless too. Besides, the application looks and feels like WebTV, not Windows. It took me 5 minutes to figure out how to exit the darned thing. Microsoft should take a close look at the excellent TV tuner software bundled by ATI, which I ended up reinstalling after deleting the built-in TV Tuner.
Simplicity is best.
After a week or so with Windows 98, I understand why Microsoft is being so intractable. I think Internet Explorer is so interwoven in the fabric of Win 98 that the two really are one product. If the government forces Microsoft to unbundle IE from Windows, we won't see Win 98 until sometime in 1999. No matter how you connect to the Internet, it's never fast enough. You've got files to download, pages to see.