Software Room 101

[d000hg]

Have we had Windows ME yet? How apt, to name it after brain damage. ME is also closely linked with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) which is what using Windows ME generally leads to.

I remember once we did a clean ME install and going online to do the automatic updates as suggested, our computer was full of malware and popups before the installation process had even completed!

[doodab]

It would be much easier to make a list of software worth keeping....

[Mich the Tester]

It would be much easier to make a list of software worth keeping....

Would that fill a one page thread?

[doodab]

Would that fill a one page thread?

Possibly not...

[vetran]

It would be much easier to make a list of software worth keeping....

Actually there are many really good bits of software out there, we might moan about ME but Windows 7 is superb. We might doubt the validity of some feature in Office but overall we nearly all use it daily.

Some of the shareware and freeware puts huge software houses to shame.

[eek]

Actually there are many really good bits of software out there, we might moan about ME but Windows 7 is superb. We might doubt the validity of some feature in Office but overall we nearly all use it daily.

Some of the shareware and freeware puts huge software houses to shame.

Yep Windows 7 is superb. What about Vista or Windows 8?

[Mich the Tester]

Actually there are many really good bits of software out there, we might moan about ME but Windows 7 is superb. We might doubt the validity of some feature in Office but overall we nearly all use it daily.

Some of the shareware and freeware puts huge software houses to shame.

I use WordPad more than Word; it doesn't play random formatting jokes and it doesn't encourage idiot 'process managers' to make macro's that slow down progress.

And yes, a lot of freeware puts the big software houses to shame, especially some of the testing stuff, probably because it's built by people who use it to do their work instead of being built to please BigCo's marketing wonks.

[vetran]

Yep Windows 7 is superb. What about Vista or Windows 8?

Vista should have been called "windows 7 pre,pre,pre alpha".


Windows 8 is AIUI robust, its the imposition of marketing twerps that have hurt it. Windows 9 will probably be cracking.

[quackhandle]

ServiceNow, because it has a million fields that nobody understands and hence they misuse them and put metadata into ticket descriptions. It encourages bad user behaviour. And it's stupidly expensive for what it does.

+1, so bad it makes me pine for Remedy.

qh

[bless 'em all]

+1, so bad it makes me pine for Remedy.

qh

Remedy? Open on my machine right now.