[JohnWill]

The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time

I am fully in agreement with #1!

[aarhus2004]

With little respect due I repectfully submit that this post be moved to where it might best be at home i.e. in Random Discussion, instead of in this forum where it will undoubtedly clog the value and intent of the forum with more mindlessness.

Cheers.

Ben

[Gabriel]

Well so far I've only had 4 of the 25 worst ones
#1, #2, #4, and #8
All are now gone from my PC (except for the crap AOL left behind on my harddrive), and the Real Player I still have installed, and will take it off as it does pop ads up when off-line, and I don't like that

[pfurball]

Howdy All,
Yes, I managed #4 when my son did me a "favour" and installed it instead of 98SE. My Enemey I called it!! Shocker!! IE6 is definitely still a shocker but I mainly use Firefox so get round it. I wonder if IE 7 is going to be an improvement? #16 I installed and promptly had to get rid of so I agree with that but I never had any trouble with #15....mine worked excellently apart from XP not liking them, which is when I removed them. I ran into #18 and had 3 of them before I gave up and swapped to a Seagate instead...end of problem!
Regards Paula

[JStergis]

Let's see, I've managed:

2-It came with something-got rid of it quick!
4-Had it for years and actually never had an issue with it. Now I have 2000!
8-Still have it since a few things require it, although It is burried in the deep dark caverns of my hard drives
13-Threw it out last year sometime
15-in my grandmother's machine , never used it

[valis]

I had COMPLETELY forgotten about DigiScents. Thought it was a joke back in 2k1, still not too sure if it isn't......

[Tapeuup]

Originally Posted by aarhus2004

With little respect due I repectfully submit that this post be moved to where it might best be at home i.e. in Random Discussion, instead of in this forum where it will undoubtedly clog the value and intent of the forum with more mindlessness.

lol.... hey John, you paying attention?

[flavallee]

"AOL Hell" definitely belongs on the top of the list.

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[JStergis]

Originally Posted by flavallee

"AOL Hell" definitely belongs on the top of the list.

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I honestly can't believe people use it after all this time. Don't they get fed up with it?
I've never had it, although I know people who STILL DO!

[Rockn]

Originally Posted by aarhus2004

With little respect due I repectfully submit that this post be moved to where it might best be at home i.e. in Random Discussion, instead of in this forum where it will undoubtedly clog the value and intent of the forum with more mindlessness.

Cheers.

Ben

He's just upset because number 1 and number 4 are his favorite products of all time.

[Gabriel]

Originally Posted by Rockn

He's just upset because number 1 and number 4 are his favorite products of all time.

OOOHHH

[flavallee]

My mother-in-law, who has been a die-hard "AOL Hell" dial-up user, finally broke down and got rid of it and is now using Roadrunner high-speed cable.

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[lotuseclat79]

They should have included all Windows OSes simply for the absolute worst design feature/idea in an overall OS design - the Registry. Not only is it a global data structure and subject to security vulnerability (not good for the system), its very nature is prima facia evidence of Microsoft's incompetent design in OSes. Just running RegMon from Sysinternals.com for real-time changes to the Registry boggles the mind.

Security needs to be designed into a sytem as a forethought, not an afterthought. And we are all paying for that. Vista will be no better, maybe slightly, but at $450 a pop not too many folks are going to be beating a path to their Vista door. The research OS, Singularity, with no Windows roots is the only long term chance MS has to survive in the the future. Of course, MS's profits are really generated by its applications which would then have to be redesigned to not use the Registry.

I rest my case - I'm a long term Unix/Linux user and only tolerate Windows because its there, for now, at least, anyway.

-- Tom

[aarhus2004]

Tom, for your voice of sanity, I am grateful. I will go further and say that a post such as yours gives some credence to JohnWill's thread.

Keep up the great work.

Thanks.

Ben.

[Tapeuup]

wish I could design something that was the "absolute worst design feature/idea in an overall OS design"

AND have $50 billion in the bank!