Anyone who provides their apps as preinstalled demo craplets on a consumer PC must go into the least favourite category. In particular the developers of PaintShop Pro who destroyed a mid-range image editor by adding bloat.
Anything from Symantec is contemptible. Fortunately, it took the a while to kill off the Think C and Pascal developer tools.
Anything from Computer Associates -- "where good software goes to die". They killed off CricketDraw and CricketPaint. In the server world, they destroyed ArcServe (tape backup).
I like that bloke who makes Graphic Converter, because the app does exactly what is required and does not try to do too much.
I like Adobe apps a bit. PhotoShop Elements is almost right for families wishing to twek their holiday snaps. I use it at work, but I always use something else at home.
Google Earth is brilliant most of the time. The pictures of Leicester were dreadful until recently, however, so I am glad that Microsoft provides an alternative.
Anything from Symantec is contemptible. Fortunately, it took the a while to kill off the Think C and Pascal developer tools.
Anything from Computer Associates -- "where good software goes to die". They killed off CricketDraw and CricketPaint. In the server world, they destroyed ArcServe (tape backup).
I like that bloke who makes Graphic Converter, because the app does exactly what is required and does not try to do too much.
I like Adobe apps a bit. PhotoShop Elements is almost right for families wishing to twek their holiday snaps. I use it at work, but I always use something else at home.
Google Earth is brilliant most of the time. The pictures of Leicester were dreadful until recently, however, so I am glad that Microsoft provides an alternative.