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I don’t want your “Desktop Help” applications. I don’t want your tray icons. I don’t want your proprietary browsers. I don’t want an e-mail address with you. I don’t want your website as my home page. I don’t want your help when I typo a domain name. </dd> <dt id="">Symantec</dt> <dd> Somewhere along the line you decided to protect people from their own computer, rather than protect the computer itself. You have never once written a piece of software that didn’t slow a machine down to a painful crawl. Every machine I have come across that has had Norton on it, has had a virus and multiple spywares still there. Your product is so bad, its own uninstaller does not work. You sell a false sense of security, nothing more. </dd> <dt id="">McAfee</dt> <dd> Your product is slow, useless, impossible to configure and relies upon passwords, activation and Internet Explorer just to do its job. It fails on every level. </dd> <dt id="">Printer manufacturers</dt> <dd> A Printer driver is a folder with one ‘.ini’ file, and a couple of ‘.dll’s and that’s it.<br /> It is not a 50 <abbr title="meg">MB</abbr> download. It is not an IE Toolbar, and Side Pane. It is not half-baked photo software. It is not a splash screen when your computer starts. It is not a tray icon. </dd> <dt id="">Yahoo</dt> <dd> If Microsoft bought you, your software would actually improve.<br /> The Yahoo Toolbar is like <abbr>AIDS</abbr>. You have to be careful what software you download, otherwise you’re bound to get it from <a href="http://ccleaner.com" rel="nofollow external">one</a> <a href="http://java.com" rel="nofollow external">of</a> <a href="http://google.co.uk/search?q=includes+Yahoo+Toolbar">them</a> along the line. </dd> <dt id="">Nokia, and other phone manufacturers</dt> <dd> You seem to be under the impression that you are the only piece of software on the computer. You’re happy to rear your ugly face at every boot. You make a simple thing like syncing seem like surgery. Your software is so unwieldy, it’d be easier to take up origami. </dd> <dt id="">nVidia and ATI</dt> <dd> A graphics card driver drives the screen. It does not include two context menus and a tray icon that handily <a href="http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/video/gf6800u-sli/SLI_capable_message.png" type="image/png">reminds you</a> that you don’t have an SLI configuration every time you boot. Your configuration options shouldn’t be so complex that I have to choose between a basic and advanced mode, both of which are as equally useless as each other. </dd> <dt id=""><a href="/art/aol">AOL</a></dt> </dl> </section> <!-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --> </article> <footer> <nav><a href="http://forum.camendesign.com">‹ Discuss this in the Forum ›</a></nav> <a href="mailto:kroc@camendesign.com">kroc@camendesign.com</a> <nav>view-source: <a href="/blog/stop_writing_software.rem">Rem</a> • <a href="/blog/stop_writing_software.html">HTML</a> • <a href="/design/">CSS</a> • <a href="/.system/">PHP</a> • <a href="/.htaccess">.htaccess</a> </nav> <form method="get" action="https://duckduckgo.com"> <input type="hidden" name="sites" value="camendesign.com" /> <input type="search" name="q" placeholder="search…" /> <input type="submit" value="Go" /> </form> </footer> <!-- =================================================================================================== code is art === -->