Category: 3rd Party Software
Link: The 10 worst software programs ever
Posted on MacBytes.com
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2. Microsoft OS/2.
Later taken over by IBM, this 1987 joint venture was going to be the next great operating system, according to Steve Ballmer.
Abstract said:Why are all the worst programs of all time in the 80's? Sure, they weren't as developed and sophisticated back then, but in that era, I'm sure some of these things weren't THAT bad.
Yeah, but those were the only programs I'd actually heard of. There has to be a balance between "Joe's Widgets" -- programs that were amazingly bad but no one's ever heard of them, and programs that might be bad in some peoples' eyes but actually became very popular (such as Windows XP).stcanard said:Maybe my definition of a flop is different, but I would have expected to see really bad software that never went anywhere. First iterations of what have become mainstays just don't fit in my book.
stcanard said:My god, could the author of this article be more off base? Just because a program disappeared, doesn't mean it was a flop:
kerb said:Windows 97 was far worse then ME
bousozoku said:OS/2 is a winner overall, but Microsoft really made a mess of promoting and supporting their version of OS/2.
Nermal said:So they renamed it to NT and tried again. Look where it is now!
stcanard said:I'm not sure if you meant this literally, but NT was actually a complete ground-up redesign. It's more VMS than OS/2.
bousozoku said:I really don't understand why he attacked Modula-2. For quite a while, it was taught in Europe and was a better-than-C replacement for Pascal. I still appreciate that Modula-2 gets its integration information from compiled modules, not source files. It's easier to produce stable code quickly than with C and the code runs nearly as fast. Had it caught on here, we might not be seeing so many buffer overflow errors and therefore, machine exploits.