Posts Tagged ‘Software’
Annoying software: a rogues’ gallery
Written by jf on May 21, 2008 – 12:04 pm -Found this little article while reading some newsletter this morning:
Here is a little preview.
Adobe Reader
What does Adobe Reader do? Displays PDF pages. How does it do it? With as much bloody-minded bureaucracy, delay and needless interaction as possible. Perhaps it’s because we humans have been spoiled by books, where the gap between wanting to read something and reading it is as short as the time taken to lift the cover. But Reader’s incessant updates (demanding you reset your computer — why?), thundering great list of modules to load …Apple
Oh, Apple. You created a domain where humans came first. You took usability and distilled it into an art form. Now look at you. iTunes is a music player the size of a fat-bottomed whale that gobbles resources like krill. It spends half its time trying to sell us stuff and the other half trying to stop us using it. But that’s not as bad as your auto-update policy: slipping us stealth copies of Safari under the cover of important version updates to iTunes and Quicktime….Windows Update
Your machine will reset in four minutes. Your machine will not shut down until these five updates are installed. You must restart your machine now. You will install Microsoft Genuine Advantage. Please wait while these updates are installed. Please shut down all applications before applying this update. Pop! New updates are ready to be installed. And now that we’ve stopped you doing whatever it was you were doing (like we care)…
Read the entire article from zdnet: Annoying software: a rogues’ gallery
Goodbye Netscape Navigator
Written by jf on January 12, 2008 – 3:52 pm -10 years have now gone since the first apparition of Netscape Navigator and now it is time to say goodbye to this browser. As announced by AOL, the netscape browser support will end on the 1st of February 2008.
I still remember during my first days using internet i have been playing around with Navigator 3 or 4 i may think. It was kind of the impressive i may say the first time, but afterwards i switched to Internet Explorer, and now i am using both Internet Explorer and FireFox.
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