Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 26th May 2006 19:32 UTC, submitted by brewin
"At PC World, we spend most of our time talking about products that make your life easier or your work more productive. But it's the lousy ones that linger in our memory long after their shrinkwrap has shriveled, and that make tech editors cry out, 'What have I done to deserve this?' Still, even the worst products deserve recognition (or deprecation). So as we put together our list of World Class winners for 2006, we decided also to spotlight the 25 worst tech products that have been released since PC World began publishing nearly a quarter-century ago."
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2006-02-15
VLC? I rather prefer MPlayer. It looks better and works like a charm. It even plays a whole bunch of broken videos, though I don't know how well VLC handles such..
As for the article: great reading! I remember very well the Comet Cursor..At school I used to take care of the computers in the computer science class (I knew a lot more about them than any of the teachers..I still do =P), and when I saw Comet Cursor there for the first time, I just got a hunch it wasn't a good thing..I removed it immediately, and later on found out that I was right. Idiotically the school's policy didn't allow me to do much more than remove it or just tell people not to install it. *sigh* Those were the times...Removing the CIH virus all the time was a pain in the *ss, and the losers using the computers weren't of any help: when they wanted to play Counter-Strike or Quake, and there wasn't enough free space to copy those games to the hard-drive, they made up some space by f.ex. removing the Program Files-folder on C:, or removing most of the files in the Windows-folder...Windows even allowed removing things like explorer.exe..