what is the most irritating software of all time?

[anarch]

Poll question: what is the most irritating software of all time?

[LeftyMom]

1. Internet Exploder.

:shudder:

[LSK]

8. yep

Unless people enjoy a brazilian popup windows.

[LeftyMom]

9. oh, and spyware and adware out the wazoo

:eyes:

[ghostsofgiants]

25. And a lack of support for web standards and PNG alpha transparency

x(

[evlbstrd]

2. PowerPoint.

Blecch.

[anarch]

3. .

Look at this illustration of the LN secure sign-on interface:



:wtf:

Hell, here's the rest of somebody's rant.

Analysis
This dialog box contains several security "features":

The hierglyphics on the left of the dialog box are supposed to distract someone who is peering over your shoulder trying to learn your password as you type.
The number of characters you type is hidden because a bunch of X's appear instead of one asterisk per character.
Is any of this nonsense really necessary? If I want to learn someone's password as he or she types it, I will look at the keyboard, not the screen!

It's an email application, not a utility that allows you to delete every file on your network servers.

There's, like, a whole page dedicated to why LN sucks ass:


http://lotusnotessucks.4t.com/index.html

[kick-ass-bob]

4. HAHAHAHAHA!! Most worthless invention ever!!

No one ever looks at a screen to pick up someones password. What they REALLY need is a randomly changing keyboard!

:rofl:

[jmowreader]

13. I actually saw one once!

It wasn't on a computer, though, but on a security door.

The Canadian Army's MI school (I went up there as an adjunct instructor for three weeks) has a cipher lock on the door. The colonel told me, "don't ever forget the code to get in...let me show you why..." and pushed the "Start" button on the lock. The keys flashed three times then came up in a random fashion. "We have a written guarantee from the company that made this, that the combination will repeat itself every sixteen million times it's used."

[Yavin4]

6. Sorry, I Didn't Read Your Post

I was distracted by the hierglyphics on the left.

[Deja Q]

15. Unless ytou are remote controlling to the workstation... that's when

looking at the monitor may be of greater value... :7

[baldguy]

29. My employer is very security conscious

So much so that every application, and sometimes modules with within applications, requires its own login & password. And every one is set up in a different format, so you can't use the same one for everything. And they change every 30, 60 or 90 days too. I have literally 25 different logins I need to remember so I can do my job.

As a solution, most people have a small note pad & write everything down.

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. AOL Media Player

I'm convinced the same DNA that's responsible for it also came up with 8-track tapes. Quite simply, it doesn't work.

Another reason I don't miss AOL. :puke:

[RebelOne]

31. I have no problem with AOL Media Player and I have no problem with AOL.

[Call Me Wesley]

7. Microsoft Office.

All of it. But Powerpoint truely shines through. I'm just astonished how many big businesses have totally adopted it.

Got some Powerpoint-driven jokes lately in your e-mail? There. :puke:

[Poll_Blind]

10. Lotus is very good stuff compared to Word or IE.

PB

[ET Awful]

20. Only from a security aspect. From a user and versatility aspect

it's a pile of frog feces.

[no name no slogan]

11. OMG-- seriously, that my the first one the came to mind

Have you seen the Lotus Notes interface hall of shame page yet? You'll get a good laugh/cry out of it if you've ever been subjected to Notes before.

[ET Awful]

21. As I said below, I despise Notes, but in all fairness

many, if not most, of those interface glitches are gone in versions 5.0 and above . . . they gave way to a whole new set of interface glitches :P

[BigMcLargehuge]

12. OUTLOOK

Never has an e-mail program and calendar needed 512 Meg of RAM to run to poorly

[Kellanved]

14. but it does all those neat things

For instance try this:
create a note (one of those virtual post-its)
write something into it
move it around on the screen for at least a minute
press ctrl+z

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

17. Don't forget virus propagation.

[GCP]

16. The lousy piece of crap I have to use for nursing notes

I use a laptop for visiting nursing and the software is horrendous. I'd rather use pen and paper, it would be a hell of a lot faster.

[Vidar]

18. Windows

[ET Awful]

19. LMAO, I was thinking Lotus Notes before I even licked the link to see

your poll choices :P

And I'm a freakin' Notes administrator :evilgrin:

[Crazy Dave]

22. Microstation

It's buggy software that engineers prefer over AutoCAD which is also getting crappy. I think these companies are releasing newer versions in their alpha versions just to get ahead of the competition. Instead of patches anymore it seems they just release a so-called new version that fixed all the bugs in the last version while introducing a whole new batch of problems.

[gmoney]

23. Any Mac faxing software except GlobalFax...

Which is why GlobalFax software was never upgraded to OS X...

Apple's system software stynx, and I've not found any third party that works worth a damn either.

[DS1]

24. Flash 5 was enough to make people to switch to PowerPoint

;-)

[BuelahWitch]

26. Microsoft Bob not on that list?

Perhaps it's the most irrelevant software of all time...

[RebelOne]

27. If you have ever used FileMakerPro as I have to at my job,

you'd vote hands-down that it is the worst and most annoying software. Everyone who has to use it hates also. Quark also annoys me.

[seemunkee]

28. Real Playerq

Damn thing is as bad as a virus.

[Deja Q]

30. Microsoft ______

I've bought and used their products, and support them, and they are glossy on the surface, but not well engineered underneath.

[wackadoo wabbit]

32. Word!

And don't even get me started on Clippy.

[Rabrrrrrr]

33. Whatever software is packed with whatever scanner