Your most hated unstable software

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Jul 14 2007, 2:12 am (Edited on Jul 14 2007, 2:20 am)
If you had a choice to obliberate the very existance of any piece of software on the earth, what would it be?

Personally, I would choose Windows Movie Maker. That is the most unstable excuse for a movie maker ever invented. I mean, it's an awesome tool, though it kind of gets annoying when every second click makes the whole program freeze and quit. You get to the stage where you're repeating the process of click, save, click, restart, open, click, save exc.

ERROR: You have RIGHT CLICKED, Windows Movie Maker shall now close in 10 seconds*

*10 seconds allocated for greiving time over lost work
Jul 14 2007, 3:19 am
Why would you want to obliterate it? Just don't use it. I'm sure a ton of other people find it to be very useful.
Jul 14 2007, 3:49 am
In response to CaptFalcon33035
This is a personal view.
Jul 14 2007, 5:02 am
Internet Explorer: Mac. No kidding, that thing just crashes for what even it admits is no apparent reason every 15 to 20 minutes. (Of course, my school district thinks that's the best internet browser they could get on a Mac, so most of the computers have just that - no Safari, no Netscape, no Mozilla.)

--Vito
Jul 14 2007, 6:14 am
In response to Vito Stolidus
windows ME, and various botched installations of Win XP.
Jul 14 2007, 6:57 am
In response to Vito Stolidus
Vito Stolidus wrote:
Internet Explorer: Mac. No kidding, that thing just crashes for what even it admits is no apparent reason every 15 to 20 minutes. (Of course, my school district thinks that's the best internet browser they could get on a Mac, so most of the computers have just that - no Safari, no Netscape, no Mozilla.)

Why school districts keep buying Macs in the first place is a mystery to me. It prepares no one for the real world where most places use PCs. In an art school I could see it, but regular public elementary and high schools should be equipped with PCs.

Lummox JR
Jul 14 2007, 7:05 am
Come tax season, my most hated software, by a very large margin, is Intuit's Proseries. It is EXTREMELY buggy. Last year, it would crash at least 3 times a day, per machine. This is while the accountants where inputing information in front of clients. It's "auto save" wouldn't work, so all work would be lost. I spent countless hours on their tech support line, normally to get the reply "We'll put it in our error database". It is so incredibly frustrating.
Jul 14 2007, 7:56 am
In response to Lummox JR
Lummox JR wrote:
Why school districts keep buying Macs in the first place is a mystery to me. It prepares no one for the real world where most places use PCs. In an art school I could see it, but regular public elementary and high schools should be equipped with PCs.

Macs offer a whole set of software that PCs don't have. Apple's Final Cut Express is one example. The whole iLife series of tools that come free with an educational iMac can't be found on windows either (without paying more money to a third party). Maintenance/administration costs are likely lower, due to technologies present in OSX Server, or even just remote desktop (an awesome program, by the way). And you can run windows too if you really need to.
Jul 14 2007, 8:08 am
Whatever corrupted my copy of Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and made me have to go on Bitlord to download a new one which has now been stuck at 99.9% for the last week or so.

I'll put it on Windows XP for now.
Jul 14 2007, 8:31 am
In response to RedlineM203
Shouldn't you have your photoshop 7 disk somewhere?
Jul 14 2007, 8:40 am
iMovie crashed on me in the final five minutes of my Studio Production Final. It *tried* to auto save, but everything was mixed up and pasted together.

My teacher gave me an A anyway, though.

But I'm still mad at it for ruining my movie >:(
Jul 14 2007, 9:47 am
In response to Jon88
Still, PCs are so much more common in the life beyond school. At this point, I don't think Apple would be in buisiness anymore if the schools hadn't been buying their computers in bulk since the nineties. (Of course, now they've got several noncomputer products that are much more popular)

I'll agree Macs are good for art applications, but otherwise they have no advantage over PCs and in some ways (recovering from crash, for example) they are even inferior.

--Vito
Jul 14 2007, 9:57 am
In response to Vito Stolidus
Vito Stolidus wrote:
I'll agree Macs are good for art applications, but otherwise they have no advantage over PCs and in some ways (recovering from crash, for example) they are even inferior.

Inferior how? If a PC crashes, you reboot it. If a Mac crashes, you reboot it. If either crash beyond repair, you reimage the hard drive.
Jul 14 2007, 10:33 am
In response to Vito Stolidus
Vito Stolidus wrote:
I'll agree Macs are good for art applications, but otherwise they have no advantage over PCs and in some ways (recovering from crash, for example) they are even inferior.

I'll do you one worse and add that Macs are no better for art than PCs; they just have more software for it. But that divide has been closing for quite some time now.

Lummox JR
Jul 14 2007, 12:01 pm
Gimp.
Jul 14 2007, 1:39 pm
Windows Vista.

I only had to use it once, for a few hours, but I wanted to take a sledgehammer to the computer. Then I realized that it wasn't the computer's fault it had Vista installed on it, so I redirected my anger and frustration at the intangible operating system.

I tried for an entire day to network my family's new Vista computer with my XP one and had no luck. I tried every suggestion I could find online and nothing would work. Combine that with all the random strange error messages I was getting and the constant nags about how "a program is trying to access your computer" (!!??) and I decided that if I ever buy a new computer with Vista on it, I'm going to wipe it out straight away and replace it with XP.

If only more programs would run on Linux... :(
Jul 14 2007, 1:55 pm
In response to Vito Stolidus
they're so good at art applications that Microsoft actually uses them for their art.

Art is what in my opinion will keep the Mac alive for many years; that and it's emerging compatibility with PC parts and *hopefully* software. Mac just needs to become more like PC, and just change some of the "unique" features so it's actually worth considering for us gamers.
Jul 14 2007, 4:10 pm
In response to Sappho
I agree with you with the Linux thing, I loved Linux but half the stuff I tried to use on it never worked.

Just so you know though, my Programming teacher at my school bought a new laptop that had Vista. And it turns out that theres apparently new hardware that only runs on Vista, or its broken to work that way or something, but according to him, he tried doing that, by wiping the computer and running XP on it, but half the hardware didn't have drivers for XP on it, and therefore he had to switch back.

If you do buy a prebuilt thing, make sure you contact someone to make sure it's XP compatiable.
Jul 14 2007, 5:56 pm
In response to Sappho
Sappho wrote:
Windows Vista.

I only had to use it once, for a few hours, but I wanted to take a sledgehammer to the computer. Then I realized that it wasn't the computer's fault it had Vista installed on it, so I redirected my anger and frustration at the intangible operating system.
I disabled every annoyance that Vista threw at me without too much trouble.

I tried for an entire day to network my family's new Vista computer with my XP one and had no luck.

Did you happen to realize that Vista uses IP6?

Jul 14 2007, 6:18 pm
In response to Jon88
Jon88 wrote:
Lummox JR wrote:
Why school districts keep buying Macs in the first place is a mystery to me. It prepares no one for the real world where most places use PCs. In an art school I could see it, but regular public elementary and high schools should be equipped with PCs.

Macs offer a whole set of software that PCs don't have. Apple's Final Cut Express is one example. The whole iLife series of tools that come free with an educational iMac can't be found on windows either (without paying more money to a third party). Maintenance/administration costs are likely lower, due to technologies present in OSX Server, or even just remote desktop (an awesome program, by the way). And you can run windows too if you really need to.

My school bought an entire computer lab for the same price as it bought 8 apple computers to put in the library. But do you really need the entire iLife package, or Final Cut Express in a library? Not to mention at least 2 of those apple computers are unable to be used at any given time because of a failure somewhere.
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