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Top 10 Worst Software

Check out John Dvorak's list of the 10 worst software packages of all time:
10. Microsoft Bob
9. Combined Category: Dead Programming Languages
8. MicroPro Easy
7. Windows 1.0
6. Access (the telecom program, not the database)
5. TopView
4. Lotus Symphony and Lotus Jazz
3. Framework
2. Microsoft OS/2
1. VisiOn

Never heard of these? Waddya, one of them young punks with no sense of software history? Used any of these? How does it feel to be old enough to be the father of those young punks you work with?

Published Friday, August 20, 2004 7:15 PM by rgreen_msft
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Larry Osterman said:

Ya know, I threw out my copy of Access during my last office move :)

The guy who cleans my house still uses Bob. He loves it.
August 20, 2004 7:41 PM
 

jonpoon said:

I've used TopView, Access VisiOn a LOONG time ago.

How i wish some abandonware sites would have them somewhere so that i can use VPC to play with them again,
August 20, 2004 7:53 PM
 

SBC said:

I don't if John Dvorak qualifies to make any lists. I have been reading his column in PC Mag for many years now and I think he has lost it.
He does not believe that "innovation" exists in the software industry. Go figure..
August 20, 2004 8:42 PM
 

haha said:

No list of worst things is complete without Win 95, 98 and ME. They are the stamps used for certifying worst things!
August 20, 2004 8:57 PM
 

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) said:

I actually liked Framework. '86 or so, I think.
August 21, 2004 12:01 AM
 

Alex Papadimoulis said:

Everyone's always dissin' Bob. But surely it deserves more credit ... it is after all where Clippy was born.
August 21, 2004 9:29 PM
 

Robert Green said:

What was so bad about Windows 98?
August 24, 2004 5:24 PM
 

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