Comments on: Top 5 Best and Worst Microsoft Products

By: Minami Sumi

Minami Sumi — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:36:40 +0000

I never had any problems with Internet Explorer 6. As far as I knew it was just a normal upgrade from version 5. It was Internet Explorer 7 that I found to be usless pile of **** It wouldn’t let me do anything without warning me and it stopped me using Windows Update telling me it wasn’t in my trusted websites list.

By: Päätalo

Päätalo — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:35:46 +0000

Hey, I kinda liked the office assistant, though that was when I was like 10. Mostly it’s because it had lost of characters with more or less funny animations, and that you could just type some question in the box and it’d give a few answers or help topics in a down-to-earth manner.

On another note, I really dislike the bloated Windows Media Player. I rather use any free alternatives.

By: Carl Nelson

Carl Nelson — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:41:41 +0000

When this article was written in 2007, the PDA market WAS dying. Then the iPhone happened.

By: Myles

Myles — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:01:20 +0000

“Pocket PC Smartphone – There’s no question that the PDA market is dying”

Lol……..biggest fail in comments ever.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:41:31 +0000

You forgot to mention how IE6 has so many CSS and layout bugs that it makes me think the programmers behind it were stupid monkeys. Seriously, why can’t IE just follow the standards? Microsoft probably produces the worst products that most people use.

By: Howard

Howard — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:08:42 +0000

Windows ME may be a poor OS, Windows Vista may be a second runner up, but by far the worst (it is hard to believe that Microsoft is still in business on account of this product) was Windows 3.1 It had a terrible user interface and would require a hard reboot 3 to 5 times a day. Extremely poor software. Vista and ME are absolute gems in comparison.

By: intrepi

intrepi — Thu, 03 May 2007 18:41:25 +0000

A good read, and I tend to agree with most of your commentary although I can’t post any experiences with Vista or MP 11 as I have much bigger personal issues with Microsoft than the ones you have had. I stopped using Windows and supporting MS with XP as I just got fed up with verifying, activating and reactivating via some guy in India who, at times, I could not understand. This all forced me to call back and hope to get somebody I could understand. Now, couple all of that with the 42 digit procedure and I had reached my limits. I cannot understand nor agree to any software license, it’s terms or conditions which force me to prove to MS that I’m using a legal copy of their software. My point is, if I buy the rights to use their software, I shouldn’t have to prove it’s theirs. This is not right, nor should MS force people to do it on their time and at their expense.

By: John

John — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:22:18 +0000

your URL for power toys is incorrect ;)

besides that very good read, I agree on all points

John.

By: lazyboy1984

lazyboy1984 — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:54:51 +0000

WMP 11 is trying to do too much with features that just aren’t necessary. 10 is still the better player IMO.

By: g@z

g@z — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 01:45:26 +0000

Actually I hated WMP 11 so much in the first few minutes I rushed to remove it from my system, praying that I could rid this crapplication from my system without damage. Listing everything with a CD cover just made everything so much more difficult to do. Really who cares about the cover of the CD when all you want to do is listen to the music? I think reading the title is so much more use than looking at the cover. I’d put this as one of the worst, not the best.