A List of People Who Need To Stop Writing Software:

[Feuer Frei!]

Spot on!


Sony

New Sony laptops come with two pages in the Add/Remove list of just Sony junk.
They are also the authors of one of the worst pieces of software ever, SonicStage.


ISPs

I pay you to put a cable in my house, and let me send things up and down it; no more.
I dont want your useless anti-virus products. I dont want your Desktop Help applications. I dont want your tray icons. I dont want your proprietary browsers. I dont want an e-mail address with you. I dont want your website as my home page. I dont want your help when I typo a domain name.


Symantec

Somewhere along the line you decided to protect people from their own computer, rather than protect the computer itself. You have never once written a piece of software that didnt slow a machine down to a painful crawl. Every machine I have come across that has had Norton on it, has had a virus and multiple spywares still there. Your product is so bad, its own uninstaller does not work. You sell a false sense of security, nothing more.


McAfee
Your product is slow, useless, impossible to configure and relies upon passwords, activation and Internet Explorer just to do its job. It fails on every level.


Printer manufacturers

A Printer driver is a folder with one .ini file, and a couple of .dlls and thats it.
It is not a 50 MB download. It is not an IE Toolbar, and Side Pane. It is not half-baked photo software. It is not a splash screen when your computer starts. It is not a tray icon.


Yahoo

If Microsoft bought you, your software would actually improve.
The Yahoo Toolbar is like AIDS. You have to be careful what software you download, otherwise youre bound to get it from one of them along the line.


Nokia, and other phone manufacturers
You seem to be under the impression that you are the only piece of software on the computer. Youre happy to rear your ugly face at every boot. You make a simple thing like syncing seem like surgery. Your software is so unwieldy, itd be easier to take up origami.


nVidia and ATI

A graphics card driver drives the screen. It does not include two context menus and a tray icon that handily reminds you that you dont have an SLI configuration every time you boot. Your configuration options shouldnt be so complex that I have to choose between a basic and advanced mode, both of which are as equally useless as each other.

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[Platapus]

Technically those are not people but companies and descriptors of groups of companies.

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Technically those are not people but companies and descriptors of groups of companies.

A Terminology

You forgot Hewlet Packard!
I have 2 of thier NoteBooks here and spent DAYS dumping just pure JUNK!!

I spend several days going through the install files on the recovery disks to avoid the base install crap should I need to recover!

[antikristuseke]

format and clean OS install, saves you the trouble of removing crap manually.

[joea]

Originally Posted by antikristuseke

format and clean OS install, saves you the trouble of removing crap manually.

Uggh should have done that with my HP desktop. A bit late now I think.

Originally Posted by privateer

You forgot Hewlet Packard!
I have 2 of thier NoteBooks here and spent DAYS dumping just pure JUNK!!

I spend several days going through the install files on the recovery disks to avoid the base install crap should I need to recover!

yep, a friend of mine had me fix her computer and when i asked for her windows cd after reformatting and she hands me a stack of 8, yes i said 8 install cds and no code, all this for just regular xp home version and thats without sp1 or 2 (3 wasnt out yet at the time)

hp imbeds the registration code into the disks so you have to load 8 disks full of crap or you wount be registered as legit

[the_tyrant]

Originally Posted by privateer

You forgot Hewlet Packard!
I have 2 of thier NoteBooks here and spent DAYS dumping just pure JUNK!!

I spend several days going through the install files on the recovery disks to avoid the base install crap should I need to recover!

+1
my stupid HP touchsmart comes with non working drivers (I WANT MY TOUCHSCREEN TO ONLY SUPPORT PEN INPUT GODDAMNIT!!!!!!111!!)

and the damn "HP health check", it always crashes, how is it supposed to check the health of my computer when it crashes itself?

I could install a clean OS on the HP NoteBooks if I wanted to pay more money.
But they come with the OS as a legal version!
I payed for that didn't I?

Why should I be forced to install all the HP crap on a re-install?
And why should I be forced to buy a legal Clean install with no HP stuff?

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

Sony

As the makers of Vegas video editing software, I hope that Sony continues to make software.

McAfee

My experience is quite the opposite. Having come from Symantec, I find McAfee simple, self-sufficient and very effective.

Yahoo

Yahoo's Fantasy Football programs are the best on the internet, bar none.

nVidia and ATI

I have had no problems with cards or drivers from either of these companies.

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

Spot on!


Sony

New Sony laptops come with two pages in the Add/Remove list of just Sony junk.
They are also the authors of one of the worst pieces of software ever, SonicStage.


ISPs

I pay you to put a cable in my house, and let me send things up and down it; no more.
I dont want your useless anti-virus products. I dont want your Desktop Help applications. I dont want your tray icons. I dont want your proprietary browsers. I dont want an e-mail address with you. I dont want your website as my home page. I dont want your help when I typo a domain name.


Symantec

Somewhere along the line you decided to protect people from their own computer, rather than protect the computer itself. You have never once written a piece of software that didnt slow a machine down to a painful crawl. Every machine I have come across that has had Norton on it, has had a virus and multiple spywares still there. Your product is so bad, its own uninstaller does not work. You sell a false sense of security, nothing more.


McAfee
Your product is slow, useless, impossible to configure and relies upon passwords, activation and Internet Explorer just to do its job. It fails on every level.


Printer manufacturers

A Printer driver is a folder with one .ini file, and a couple of .dlls and thats it.
It is not a 50 MB download. It is not an IE Toolbar, and Side Pane. It is not half-baked photo software. It is not a splash screen when your computer starts. It is not a tray icon.


Yahoo

If Microsoft bought you, your software would actually improve.
The Yahoo Toolbar is like AIDS. You have to be careful what software you download, otherwise youre bound to get it from one of them along the line.


Nokia, and other phone manufacturers
You seem to be under the impression that you are the only piece of software on the computer. Youre happy to rear your ugly face at every boot. You make a simple thing like syncing seem like surgery. Your software is so unwieldy, itd be easier to take up origami.


nVidia and ATI

A graphics card driver drives the screen. It does not include two context menus and a tray icon that handily reminds you that you dont have an SLI configuration every time you boot. Your configuration options shouldnt be so complex that I have to choose between a basic and advanced mode, both of which are as equally useless as each other.

SOURCE

McAfee was terrible. before installing this pig make sure you have at least 30gigs of RAM!

Yahoo Toolbar - any software that comes with yahoo I wont install.

Symantec as in Nortons, I read once that Nortons uploads the odd malware during their updates to your pc so their software will detect it making it look all pro. Paranoid user.

ISP's I do want their email when I sign up.