Top 25 Worst Tech Products

[RoyGBiv]

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.

Picking our list wasn't exactly rocket science; it was more like group therapy. PC World staffers and contributors nominated their candidates and then gave each one the sniff test. We sought the worst of the worst--operating systems that operated badly, hardware that never should have left the factory, applications that spied on us and fed our data to shifty marketers, and products that left a legacy of poor performance and bad behavior.

And because one person's dog can be another's dish, we also devised a (Dis)Honorable Mention list for products that didn't quite achieve universal opprobrium.

AOL is # 1, which made me giggle. Windoze ME is #8, which recalled a summer of nightmares.

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,125772,pg,1,00.asp

[uppityperson]

1. Comet cursors, I got those and trouble began

crash crash crash. Finally got a new computer

[RoyGBiv]

2. I remember those too...

The guy that owned the store where I worked installed them on both our computers, one of which ran the register. We had to revert to a calculator and handwritten receipts for a couple days.

[uppityperson]

3. I never figured out what screwed up my computer, still have it put away

I will have to look at the how to get rid of it and try it one of these days. thanks