Posts tagged “tech criticism”

The Tyranny of iTunesAug 12, 2008

iTunes started as a simple, elegant music player. Now it's a bloated monstrosity handling everything from phone activation to app stores. These features have nothing to do with each other, and Apple is even using iTunes as a Trojan horse for unrelated software like Safari. Time to break it up.

I was reading this MSNBC article (surprisingly critical of Microsoft for a company owned by MS)...Jun 18, 2002

Responding to an MSNBC piece on bad software: unlike engineers who rebuild flawed machines from scratch, coders patch and graft changes onto existing code. All those shortcuts and compromises compound into garbage. Code reuse isn't the answer. That's why software sucks.

It's time for another round of Microsoft-bashing -- you know how much fun that is. It's been a bad...Nov 2, 2001

Bad week for Microsoft: XP is 11% slower than Win2K at best, and .NET Passport has already been cracked, leaking credit card numbers via malicious Hotmail emails. Avoid .NET and Microsoft products where possible.

Told ya. People are complaining about the new product activation feature in Windows XP. So MS...Jun 27, 2001

Microsoft's Windows XP product activation is backfiring badly. Locking software to hardware configs is stupid enough already, but it's triggering on routine upgrades too. Swap some memory, lose your license? This kind of greed might just be what finally does Microsoft in.