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The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Times.

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anandk
anandk Original post #1
May 27, 2006 at 6:35 PM
The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Times.

America Online (1989-2006)
RealNetworks RealPlayer (1999)
Syncronys SoftRAM (1995)
Microsoft Windows Millennium (2000)
Sony BMG Music CDs (2005)
Disney The Lion King CD-ROM (1994)
Microsoft Bob (1995)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (2001)
Pressplay and Musicnet (2002)
dBASE IV (1988)
...

click *www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,125772,pg,8,00.asp
ravi_9793
May 27, 2006 at 11:39 PM
i dont agree wid u sir.........
aryayush
May 28, 2006 at 2:00 AM
Well, you should have provided us with reasons for the same.
anandk
anandk #4
May 28, 2006 at 9:25 AM
hell, thats not my list !!!
thats the pcworld.com's list, and THEIR reasons for EACH is provided in the links ravi & arayush. and u r free to disagree with THEM, if their reasoning fails to convince you !
QwertyManiac
May 28, 2006 at 10:14 AM
RealPlayer! Hell yeah! it sucks...

Win Me =/
Darthvader
May 28, 2006 at 9:27 PM
Disney The Lion King CD-ROM (1994) :lol: :lol: :lol:
aryayush
May 29, 2006 at 3:39 AM
anandk said:
hell, thats not my list !!!
thats the pcworld.com's list, and THEIR reasons for EACH is provided in the links ravi & arayush. and u r free to disagree with THEM, if their reasoning fails to convince you !
If I do not quote any post while replying, it is understood that I am replying to the post directly above mine. I was questioning ravi_pintu2001@yahoo.com, not you. :)
Vyasram
Vyasram #8
May 30, 2006 at 7:54 PM
agree with everything except realplayer

btw, ie6 deserves the top spot
mediator
May 31, 2006 at 2:06 AM
Well real player works awesome if linux version is used. Its as simple as notepad of windows ...click/play/close...no ads/delays/nothing and I say Win Me deserves the top spot....Donno why it was even created when it predecessor was destined to perform better. And yea Lion King ( i presume the movie ) was good .
kumarmohit
May 31, 2006 at 6:33 PM
The version of Real Player here is I think 6 or 7 Although its really light on today's PCs but the the fact that its has reporting home and no playlist features make me rather ignore it. The new version is way better and if it could have used a Windows native Interface like older versions did, i would have liked it more than I like it right now.
saurabh.sauron
May 31, 2006 at 10:33 PM
i agree with everything except realplayer. RealPlayer 10.5 GOLD is one of the best player i have seen so far. it can play almost all the formats that exist, even quicktime. i dont find anything bad about it. but the linux version is really bad. i couldnt install it at all. when i finally did, it couldnt even play an MP3.