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.

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
news:...
> 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.
>

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
news:...
> 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.
>

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
news:2JMlh.19546$...
> 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
> news:...
>> 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.
>>
>

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

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.
>
>
>

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
news:...
> 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.
>

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
news:...
> 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.
>

Forgot the link for Vmware payer and server
www.vmware.com


"Red nosed reindeer" <-> wrote in message
news:...
> 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
> news:...
>> 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.
>>
>
>

Bobby wrote:
> 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

Besides being "fantastic", what do you get with Vista that you don't get
with XP other than the anti piracy crap, the DRM crap, the high price
and the eye candy?

Alias
>
> "Red nosed reindeer" <-> wrote in message
> news:...
>> 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.
>>
>