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Worst Technology Product Ever
« on: May 16, 2007, 02:49:07 AM »
Cast your vote.

I nominated Vista.  :)
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Re: Worst Technology Product Ever
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2007, 07:55:13 AM »
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I prefer Vista because I can do cool apps that improve on what I liked about the Amiga so long ago. I think you'll find that these Vista Apps are really very cool. If you really want to see what Vista does, check out this Video on a Mac with Safari or Firefox or a PC with Internet Explorer..

http://www.sneath.org/tim/wpf.htm

If after you see this you aren't impressed you are probably just a MS hater or you wish the Amiga could do this right now... Either way I'd question your motivations for saying such things..


I've never met anyone who waxed nostalgic about Windows.  Mostly people are like.."God, its even worse than the last version..".   Most people are (rightly) cynical about the technology industry in general, and Microsoft in particular.  Count me among the those who don't like any of their products.  I don't like the fact that they use the public to beta test their software.  "Ooops, time for another 'service pack'..."  I don't like their dubious (read: illegal) business practices, which are as well documented as they are notorious.  I also don't like their "upgrade forever" business model, which is an inducement to create sh1t software; this is an area in which they excel (no pun).  If this makes me an "ms-hater", oh well.  But to simply ignore these things or pretend they are not true, one must be blind, mute and illiterate. Either that, or an "ms-hater's" opposite:"ms-lover".    
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Re: Worst Technology Product Ever
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2007, 09:56:00 AM »
@waccoon:

Awesome Rant, dude.  Agree w/ every word.  :)
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Re: Worst Technology Product Ever
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2007, 04:53:03 PM »
I also refuse to use anti-virus software.  The one time I tried Norton, it brought my 3Ghz machine literally to its knees.  Its a case of the cure being worse than the disease.  

Speaking of inept products, I did some side work on a neighbor's PC the other day and noticed he had a printer driver installed.  Guess how big it was?  Try 680MB!  Now, that has got to be a record..  
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Re: Worst Technology Product Ever
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2007, 02:19:09 PM »
Real does suck mightily, indeed.

Notice a pattern developing, too..  So many Microsoft products in the running...  I think they are the undisputed champions at producing sucking software.  Apple gets an honorable mention.    
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