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Old December 31st, 2006, 10:13 AM posted to microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,microsoft.public.office.misc,microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop,microsoft.public.windows.live.messenger,microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
Red nosed reindeer
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Default Worse software of 2006

Microsoft has blundered big time. I think that the company will suffer
greatly with
this new product line. Bad concepts and design of these programs will plague
them for years.

The ultimate winner: Windows Vista. And you think nothing could be worse
than windows ME!
Reason: Every aspect of this OS is horrible. From its looks, to all the
changes they made,to the things they should have done but didn't, they took
XP and twisted it into a monstrosity.

Worse browser: IE7 wins this title hands down. Its non customizable
interface with
bad design, its poorly implemented tabs, and the multitude of bugs makes
this software of beta quality and never should have been released.

Worse Office suite: Office 2007 because of its huge bloat, and the ribbon
(the new toolbar), which will go down in history as the stupidest interface
ever implemented in an office program.

Worse Media player: WMP11. Because it is damn ugly and failed to add the
things people really needed.

Worse email client: Windows live mail desktop, because the design follows
the
same concepts of vista, again they took outlook express... and made a
monster out of it.

Having said all that, I have to say that there is one stand alone MS product
that is good,
IF you tweak it and customize it. Live messenger 8

The bright side to all this, is that the failures of the above software will
open up the doors to new
developers, to make new innovative applications that will provide service
and joy to humanity in 2007.


  #2  
Old December 31st, 2006, 10:45 AM posted to microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,microsoft.public.office.misc,microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop,microsoft.public.windows.live.messenger,microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
Red nosed reindeer
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Default Worse software of 2006

I have to offer replacements for the programs I posted as worse

OS Windows XP is the best OS Microsoft has ever made,
and contrary to some wrong posts, this will still be available even after
vista hits the stores.

Browser AvantBrowser (www.avantbrowser.com) and firefox 2 . Note
avantbrowser uses whatever IE rendering engine you have,
it falls into the category of a "shell" however the interface is light-years
ahead of IE7.

Office suite. Openoffice (free and opensource) www.openoffice.org or MS
office2003

Email client you can use outlook express 6 that is clean and simple,
outlook2003, or thunderbird that can handle rss and newsgroups too.

Media Player GomPlayer www.gomplayer.com (this is the best video player
ever!) and for audio winamp

Dont eat whatever they want to give you. Experiment, learn, and find the
applications that you think are best.

You are free to choose.




"Red nosed reindeer" - wrote in message
...
Microsoft has blundered big time. I think that the company will suffer
greatly with
this new product line. Bad concepts and design of these programs will
plague them for years.

The ultimate winner: Windows Vista. And you think nothing could be worse
than windows ME!
Reason: Every aspect of this OS is horrible. From its looks, to all the
changes they made,to the things they should have done but didn't, they
took XP and twisted it into a monstrosity.

Worse browser: IE7 wins this title hands down. Its non customizable
interface with
bad design, its poorly implemented tabs, and the multitude of bugs makes
this software of beta quality and never should have been released.

Worse Office suite: Office 2007 because of its huge bloat, and the ribbon
(the new toolbar), which will go down in history as the stupidest
interface ever implemented in an office program.

Worse Media player: WMP11. Because it is damn ugly and failed to add the
things people really needed.

Worse email client: Windows live mail desktop, because the design follows
the
same concepts of vista, again they took outlook express... and made a
monster out of it.

Having said all that, I have to say that there is one stand alone MS
product that is good,
IF you tweak it and customize it. Live messenger 8

The bright side to all this, is that the failures of the above software
will open up the doors to new
developers, to make new innovative applications that will provide service
and joy to humanity in 2007.



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Old December 31st, 2006, 11:04 AM posted to microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,microsoft.public.office.misc
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Default Worse software of 2006

Red nosed reindeer wrote:
Office suite. Openoffice (free and opensource) www.openoffice.org or MS
office2003


Our company computers were migrated this year from Office97 to
Office2003, and I really can't get on with it. Things I could do
easily in Office 97 - like position text boxes side by side for two
illustrations - simply don't work in office2003. I have passed our IT
people a list of some 30 odd bugs in Office 2003 but they work on the
"no-one ever got sacked for buying microsoft" principle, and thier fix,
for example fo not being able to number captions to match chapters is
to not number captions at all!

OpenOffice is very good, as far as it goes, but until they fix the
chart module and some of the more esoteric dual-monitor problems it
still lags behind office97 in user take-up.

My own preferred windows wp was wordperfect, but that has rather
languished for a while!

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Old December 31st, 2006, 11:17 AM posted to microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,microsoft.public.office.misc
Red nosed reindeer
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Default Worse software of 2006

Well as you can see I am not a microsoft basher.... whatever works should
remain.
Whatever new things come out that are better should replace the old.
I had to include an MS office application, because it has things people need
and use.

Open office is great for most uses... its simple and clean.... and free!
You can find a portable version here www.portableapps.com that can run also
from
a hard disk with no installation.. you just run it from a folder....

Check out the other oapplications there too. Portable does not mean you have
to use them on a USB drive.. they can work from the hard disk.. and the good
thing is that they dont need installation.. they run from a folder and are
self contained.. no registry or temp files and trash left around.

wrote in message
oups.com...
Red nosed reindeer wrote:
Office suite. Openoffice (free and opensource) www.openoffice.org or MS
office2003


Our company computers were migrated this year from Office97 to
Office2003, and I really can't get on with it. Things I could do
easily in Office 97 - like position text boxes side by side for two
illustrations - simply don't work in office2003. I have passed our IT
people a list of some 30 odd bugs in Office 2003 but they work on the
"no-one ever got sacked for buying microsoft" principle, and thier fix,
for example fo not being able to number captions to match chapters is
to not number captions at all!

OpenOffice is very good, as far as it goes, but until they fix the
chart module and some of the more esoteric dual-monitor problems it
still lags behind office97 in user take-up.

My own preferred windows wp was wordperfect, but that has rather
languished for a while!



  #5  
Old December 31st, 2006, 11:58 AM posted to microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,microsoft.public.office.misc,microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop,microsoft.public.windows.live.messenger,microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
Brian W
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Default Worse software of 2006

Why do you keep posting? People aren't gonna listen to you. Anyone who wants
Vista (like me) isn't going to change their mind just because you think it's
crap. I've got the money ready, as soon as Jan 30th hits I'll be in the shop
buying it. Anything you post here won't make the slightest difference.
Everyone can have an opinion, but you seem obsessed with hating Vista and MS
in gerneral.


"Red nosed reindeer" - wrote in message
...
Microsoft has blundered big time. I think that the company will suffer
greatly with
this new product line. Bad concepts and design of these programs will
plague them for years.

The ultimate winner: Windows Vista. And you think nothing could be worse
than windows ME!
Reason: Every aspect of this OS is horrible. From its looks, to all the
changes they made,to the things they should have done but didn't, they
took XP and twisted it into a monstrosity.

Worse browser: IE7 wins this title hands down. Its non customizable
interface with
bad design, its poorly implemented tabs, and the multitude of bugs makes
this software of beta quality and never should have been released.

Worse Office suite: Office 2007 because of its huge bloat, and the ribbon
(the new toolbar), which will go down in history as the stupidest
interface ever implemented in an office program.

Worse Media player: WMP11. Because it is damn ugly and failed to add the
things people really needed.

Worse email client: Windows live mail desktop, because the design follows
the
same concepts of vista, again they took outlook express... and made a
monster out of it.

Having said all that, I have to say that there is one stand alone MS
product that is good,
IF you tweak it and customize it. Live messenger 8

The bright side to all this, is that the failures of the above software
will open up the doors to new
developers, to make new innovative applications that will provide service
and joy to humanity in 2007.


  #6  
Old December 31st, 2006, 12:10 PM posted to microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,microsoft.public.office.misc,microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop,microsoft.public.windows.live.messenger,microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
Red nosed reindeer
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Default Worse software of 2006

Great Scott!... how can I be hating MS while at the same time I am saying XP
is superb? Did you even read my other post? I am not an MS basher...
I just dont like bad software.

You can close your ears and go ahead and buy your vista. By all means..
camp out of the store a week earlier to get vista first.. what do I care.

I cannot argue with someone who is inflexible and does not want to learn.

"Brian W" wrote in message
...
Why do you keep posting? People aren't gonna listen to you. Anyone who
wants Vista (like me) isn't going to change their mind just because you
think it's crap. I've got the money ready, as soon as Jan 30th hits I'll
be in the shop buying it. Anything you post here won't make the slightest
difference. Everyone can have an opinion, but you seem obsessed with
hating Vista and MS in gerneral.


"Red nosed reindeer" - wrote in message
...
Microsoft has blundered big time. I think that the company will suffer
greatly with
this new product line. Bad concepts and design of these programs will
plague them for years.

The ultimate winner: Windows Vista. And you think nothing could be worse
than windows ME!
Reason: Every aspect of this OS is horrible. From its looks, to all the
changes they made,to the things they should have done but didn't, they
took XP and twisted it into a monstrosity.

Worse browser: IE7 wins this title hands down. Its non customizable
interface with
bad design, its poorly implemented tabs, and the multitude of bugs makes
this software of beta quality and never should have been released.

Worse Office suite: Office 2007 because of its huge bloat, and the ribbon
(the new toolbar), which will go down in history as the stupidest
interface ever implemented in an office program.

Worse Media player: WMP11. Because it is damn ugly and failed to add the
things people really needed.

Worse email client: Windows live mail desktop, because the design follows
the
same concepts of vista, again they took outlook express... and made a
monster out of it.

Having said all that, I have to say that there is one stand alone MS
product that is good,
IF you tweak it and customize it. Live messenger 8

The bright side to all this, is that the failures of the above software
will open up the doors to new
developers, to make new innovative applications that will provide service
and joy to humanity in 2007.




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Old December 31st, 2006, 12:36 PM posted to microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,microsoft.public.office.misc,microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop,microsoft.public.windows.live.messenger,microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
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Default Worse software of 2006

Brian W wrote:
I've got the money ready, as soon as Jan 30th hits I'll
be in the shop buying it.


LOL! Now *that's* funny.

Alias
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Old December 31st, 2006, 12:48 PM posted to microsoft.public.office.misc,microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,microsoft.public.windows.live.messenger,microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
Vlad
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Default Worse software of 2006


Horrible programm - immediately ater I've downloaded it my previosuly
stable latop -2 years old Dell ispiron 600 m,running Windos XP started to
crash every 5 minutes , after I had to perform system restore it wied out
most of my previously instlled programms and left me with hardly working
IE6.0!

I do strongly advise everyone considering to download it not to do so!

Regards

Vlad Maksoutov
Australia
"Red nosed reindeer" wrote:

Microsoft has blundered big time. I think that the company will suffer
greatly with
this new product line. Bad concepts and design of these programs will plague
them for years.

The ultimate winner: Windows Vista. And you think nothing could be worse
than windows ME!
Reason: Every aspect of this OS is horrible. From its looks, to all the
changes they made,to the things they should have done but didn't, they took
XP and twisted it into a monstrosity.

Worse browser: IE7 wins this title hands down. Its non customizable
interface with
bad design, its poorly implemented tabs, and the multitude of bugs makes
this software of beta quality and never should have been released.

Worse Office suite: Office 2007 because of its huge bloat, and the ribbon
(the new toolbar), which will go down in history as the stupidest interface
ever implemented in an office program.

Worse Media player: WMP11. Because it is damn ugly and failed to add the
things people really needed.

Worse email client: Windows live mail desktop, because the design follows
the
same concepts of vista, again they took outlook express... and made a
monster out of it.

Having said all that, I have to say that there is one stand alone MS product
that is good,
IF you tweak it and customize it. Live messenger 8

The bright side to all this, is that the failures of the above software will
open up the doors to new
developers, to make new innovative applications that will provide service
and joy to humanity in 2007.



  #9  
Old December 31st, 2006, 01:21 PM posted to microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,microsoft.public.office.misc,microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop,microsoft.public.windows.live.messenger,microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
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Default 25 BEST FREE applications for 2006 (according to me)

1) Media GomPlayer www.gomplayer.com
2) Browsers Avant www.avantbrowser.com and Firefox www.getfirefox.com
3) Torrent uTorrent www.utorrent.com
4) Disk Cleaner CCleaner www.ccleaner.com
5) Downloadesr www.flashget.com and Orbitdownloader
www.orbitdownloader.com
6) Email client ThunderBird www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
7) RSS reader GreatNews http://www.curiostudio.com/
8) Office Suite Openoffice www.openoffice.org and Portable
http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable
9) Chat application Live Messenger http://messenger.msn.com (can now chat
with yahoo 8.x users)
10) Disk Burner CDBurnerXP http://www.cdburnerxp.se
11) Note taker & Clipper Evernote www.evernote.com/en/ Firefox/Thunderbird
addon https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1926/
12) System information dispay Samurize www.samurize.com
13) System information SIW www.gtopala.com
14) Torrent search Torrent Harvester
http://torrentharvester.awardspace.com/ (needs network framework 1.1)
15) Annoyance solver Unlocker http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
16) Virtual Machines Vmware Player and Server, and http://www.easyvmx.com/
site
17) Graphics Irfanview www.irfanview.com
18) Cool applications Google Earth http://earth.google.com
19) Shell enhancment PowerMenu
http://www.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/powermenu/
20) Startup Manager StartUp Manager
http://www.wheresjames.com/index.php?page=startupmgr
21) Antivirus Avast Home www.avast.com
22) Antispyware spybot www.safer-networking.org and
Adaware Personal
http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-...bj=dl&tag=top5
23) VNC UltraVNC www.uvnc.com
24) Linux and Linux Live CD Knoppix 5.1
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=03938#0, Ubuntu www.ubuntu.com Kubuntu
www.kubuntu.org and Mint Linux http://lt.k1011.nutime.de/ (there are too
many good linux distros.. I mentioned these because they are updated all the
time and much alive)
25) PDF reader Adobe acrobat 8 has been improved greatly in speed in
comparison to 6 or 7 www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Enjoy and happy new year!







"Red nosed reindeer" - wrote in message
...
Microsoft has blundered big time. I think that the company will suffer
greatly with
this new product line. Bad concepts and design of these programs will
plague them for years.

The ultimate winner: Windows Vista. And you think nothing could be worse
than windows ME!
Reason: Every aspect of this OS is horrible. From its looks, to all the
changes they made,to the things they should have done but didn't, they
took XP and twisted it into a monstrosity.

Worse browser: IE7 wins this title hands down. Its non customizable
interface with
bad design, its poorly implemented tabs, and the multitude of bugs makes
this software of beta quality and never should have been released.

Worse Office suite: Office 2007 because of its huge bloat, and the ribbon
(the new toolbar), which will go down in history as the stupidest
interface ever implemented in an office program.

Worse Media player: WMP11. Because it is damn ugly and failed to add the
things people really needed.

Worse email client: Windows live mail desktop, because the design follows
the
same concepts of vista, again they took outlook express... and made a
monster out of it.

Having said all that, I have to say that there is one stand alone MS
product that is good,
IF you tweak it and customize it. Live messenger 8

The bright side to all this, is that the failures of the above software
will open up the doors to new
developers, to make new innovative applications that will provide service
and joy to humanity in 2007.



  #10  
Old December 31st, 2006, 01:39 PM posted to microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,microsoft.public.office.misc,microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop,microsoft.public.windows.live.messenger,microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
Bobby
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I'm new to this newsgruop so forgive me for responding to this troll.

But I've recently installed Vista (Ultimate) on my desktop PC - and it's
fantastic. I'm really impressed with its look and compatibility with old
(XP) programs. It also runs faster than XP and has lots of nice touches.

Superb OS Microsoft!

Bobby

"Red nosed reindeer" - wrote in message
...
Microsoft has blundered big time. I think that the company will suffer
greatly with
this new product line. Bad concepts and design of these programs will
plague them for years.

The ultimate winner: Windows Vista. And you think nothing could be worse
than windows ME!
Reason: Every aspect of this OS is horrible. From its looks, to all the
changes they made,to the things they should have done but didn't, they
took XP and twisted it into a monstrosity.

Worse browser: IE7 wins this title hands down. Its non customizable
interface with
bad design, its poorly implemented tabs, and the multitude of bugs makes
this software of beta quality and never should have been released.

Worse Office suite: Office 2007 because of its huge bloat, and the ribbon
(the new toolbar), which will go down in history as the stupidest
interface ever implemented in an office program.

Worse Media player: WMP11. Because it is damn ugly and failed to add the
things people really needed.

Worse email client: Windows live mail desktop, because the design follows
the
same concepts of vista, again they took outlook express... and made a
monster out of it.

Having said all that, I have to say that there is one stand alone MS
product that is good,
IF you tweak it and customize it. Live messenger 8

The bright side to all this, is that the failures of the above software
will open up the doors to new
developers, to make new innovative applications that will provide service
and joy to humanity in 2007.


 




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