PC World's choices for the 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/artic...72,pg,8,00.asp

PC World's choices for the 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time

The Complete List of Losers

1. America Online (1989-2006)
2. RealNetworks RealPlayer (1999)
3. Syncronys SoftRAM (1995)
4. Microsoft Windows Millennium (2000)
5. Sony BMG Music CDs (2005)
6. Disney The Lion King CD-ROM (1994)
7. Microsoft Bob (1995)
8. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (2001)
9. Pressplay and Musicnet (2002)
10. dBASE IV (198
11. Priceline Groceries and Gas (2000)
12. PointCast (1996)
13. IBM PCjr. (1984)
14. Gateway 2000 10th Anniversary PC (1995)
15. Iomega Zip Drive (199
16. Comet Cursor (1997)
17. Apple Macintosh Portable (1989)
18. IBM Deskstar 75GXP (2000)
19. OQO Model 1 (2004)
20. CueCat (2000)
21. Eyetop Wearable DVD Player (2004)
22. Apple Pippin @World (1996)
23. Free PCs (1999)
24. DigiScents iSmell (2001)
25. Sharp RD3D Notebook (2004)

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> 4. Microsoft Windows Millennium (2000)

lol. good stuff.

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> 7. Microsoft Bob (1995)

MS Bob made the list? Does he know?

He'll be p!ssed when he sees they got his birthday wrong.
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I would've rated Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader among the top 5.

"Cerebrus" <> wrote in message
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>I would've rated Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader among the top 5.
>
Have you seen the new Adobe 3D?

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Thus spake <BD> :

>> Have you seen the new Adobe 3D?

Actually no... Is it even worse ? Hard to imagine what could be worse !

>I would've rated Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader among the top 5.
>

I vote for that!
The Acrobat ActiveX-control, that is.
In my case about 80% of IE7-crashes and hangs (I have them most days) are
because of Acrobat Reader, this is after I've disabled the automatic updates
(which will hang your browser if you have PDF in an inactive window)
about 10% is because of Flash Player,
about 10% is IE7 beta, developer toolbar, media player activeX, live msn
activeX and others (any rootkits I might have) combined

"Cerebrus" <> wrote in message
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> Thus spake <BD> :
>
>>> Have you seen the new Adobe 3D?
>
> Actually no... Is it even worse ? Hard to imagine what could be worse !
>
Well, they want alot of money for it anyways...


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"Gorm Braarvig" <> wrote in message
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> >I would've rated Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader among the top 5.
>>
>
> I vote for that!
> The Acrobat ActiveX-control, that is.
> In my case about 80% of IE7-crashes and hangs (I have them most days) are
> because of Acrobat Reader, this is after I've disabled the automatic updates
> (which will hang your browser if you have PDF in an inactive window)
> about 10% is because of Flash Player,
> about 10% is IE7 beta, developer toolbar, media player activeX, live msn
> activeX and others (any rootkits I might have) combined
>
I got that in IE6 quite often too. I can't even count the times that I've had
to go into the Task Manager to kill the AOM process.

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I prefer to disable the "Fast (!!!) web view" option in Adobe Reader
preferences to prevent IE from hanging. Also, I've removed all plugins
except the necessary ones, so it starts up much faster.

BTW, I never bothered to upgrade the reader to version 7.0. Instead
switched to Foxit Reader which is a 1.2 MB download compared to Adobe
Reader's ~30 MB. (which expands to about 90 MB upon installation.)

Regards,

Cerebrus.