Worse software of 2006

some of the things on that list I agree with, others I don't.

Flashget is crap I prefer Leechget 2006 (which is also free and works much
better in my opinion).

As good as uTorrent is, it has only just started supporting SSL which I need
for one of the trackers that I use so instead I continue to use Azureus

Open office is good in what it is trying to do, but for what I need it can't
measure up to the power of the Microsoft Office suite (in particular it's
database application is severely limiting)

You can say all you like about how Adobe has reduced the startup time of
Reader 8, but that still doesn't get past the fact that the program is over
50MB when installed on the system, I myself use Foxitreader from
FoxItSoftware.com (it's free, the installer is only 1.6MB and when fully
installed it takes up less than 3MB of space) Foxitreader also opens files
much faster (100MB PDF file opened in under 1sec as opposed to Adobe Reader
taking a good minute to open the same file (and yes, it was a fresh install
of Adobe Reader).



"Doug" stand@attention wrote in message
...
Good list...I have a great many of them. Will check out the others that I
don't have.

Thanks.

Doug W.
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"Red nosed reindeer" - wrote in message
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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
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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.

In ,
DatabaseBen .. typed:
|| get a blog.

"Red nosed reindeer" - wrote in message
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I just downloaded the video with Jim Allchin... I was not impressed at all.

RNR,

If you want to be impressed, I'd suggest digging a little bit more into
Channel 9's video vault. Here's a link to all videos that have "Windows
Vista" tag:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Showforum.a...mid=14&tagid=9

--
Alexander Suhovey

Thank you.. I will see what they have to say...

"Alexander Suhovey" wrote in message
...
"Red nosed reindeer" - wrote in message
...

I just downloaded the video with Jim Allchin... I was not impressed at
all.

RNR,

If you want to be impressed, I'd suggest digging a little bit more into
Channel 9's video vault. Here's a link to all videos that have "Windows
Vista" tag:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Showforum.a...mid=14&tagid=9

--
Alexander Suhovey

Buy a iMac and wander around in the maze of the unknown.

"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.

Red nosed reindeer wrote:
I have to offer replacements for the programs I posted as worse

One candidate must be whatever software you are using that failed to tag
'worse' as a grammatical or spelling error ;-)

Don't be so sure no one is going to listen to others...I pick and choose
what I read, as long as my computer is protected, and I'm doing my job
keeping it "clean" I won't believe what MS writes, or anyone else, until
I've done my own research and made up my own mind, in the end. Being a wise
consumer today requires a lot of "foot-work," but to blindly follow anyone
or any thing is what got us into Iraq and our astronomical national debt.
"Pat B" wrote in message
...
Thats your opinion, I thought the post was valid, with alot of insight
that
toke time. Don't knock him for all us
Haven't you ever heard if you can't say something nice,..say nothing.

"Brian W" wrote:

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.

LOL!

"C A Upsdell" " wrote in message
...
Red nosed reindeer wrote:
I have to offer replacements for the programs I posted as worse

One candidate must be whatever software you are using that failed to tag
'worse' as a grammatical or spelling error ;-)

Im not sure how you can justify all of MS applications being the worst
because they are ugly. I have vista, office 07 and all the others, and
personally, i love the designs. also everything about them makes it slightly
easier for me to work, play and find stuff out. it runs just as fast as xp.
office 2007 makes documents look sexy and impressive, and is the best suite
ever.

the only thing that knocks MS products is slight bloating, although this is
OK if you have a fast computer, and also the stupid Live theme that runs
throughout. i much preferred the playful colours of the early Live messenger
betas.

i guess the looks are down to personal choice, but i think they look nice.
if you dont think so, just use the older versions, no one cares, becuase you
are the only person ive heard that says theyre ugly.

"Brian W" wrote in message
...

"Dan" wrote in message
...
Brian is obviously a Microsoft employee/shill.

Wrong.

Either that or a spoiled 11
year old whose mommy just gave him some money and now he's out to get the
latest toy.

Wrong again. I'm 34 if you must know.

Exactly the type Bill Gates sees coming everytime.

Whatever. I've been running Vista since the betas, I like it so I'm
getting it. I sold my XP retail licence and the money from that is part
payment for Vista.

So... since you sold your XP license, that means you're not buying Vista as
an upgrade, right?

--
Ken Halter - MS-MVP-VB - Please keep all discussions in the groups..
In Loving Memory - http://www.vbsight.com/Remembrance.htm