firefox
foobar2000
sygate personal firewall.
videolan media player
winamp
What do you think is the most overrated piece of software available for windows? I've listed the apps which have the loudest following of hysterical girlish fanboys.
firefox
Has to be the winner in my view. Slow, buggy, poor rendering and unexplained crashes make this one of the lamest browsers of recent years.
foobar2000
Not far behind in the lameness stakes. A music player with the worst GUI ever. Poor sound quality and overall bugginess make this one of the weaker mp3 players around.
sygate
Difficult to configure, with a horrible layout and using a ton of RAM. Don't come running to me if hackers take over your PC while running this dreadful piece of snake oil.
videolan
People like this because it's "simple". However in this case "simple" = "no features"
winamp
Worthless, appalling sounding AOL bloatware.
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The hard part is... opinion is opinion. Whether or not it is popular opinion in a particular place matters the most on polls. Hell, here I am typing this in my firefox window, listening to my music on winamp, most of which was dl'd over shareaza. Shall I continue listing things on my computer that people think are crap? Maybe I should list my mp3 collection?
Enough Rant.....
My vote goes to sygate, I'd throw in zone alarm as well. Most firewalls are completly counterproductive to broadband internet so far. Untill that changes, I'll just remember to turn my modem off.
-Note... not trying to flame... just ranting
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overrated windows software?
Why windows of course......
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lol well i use firefox winamp and sygate firefox works great for me and the fact it comes so simple out of the box and you just get to add plug ins that you want is great because your only gonna add stuff your gonna use,winamp 5(the last1 by the original team is great i dont think its bloaty and has nice cd ripping too,and finally sygate pro..well iv used norton(wow crapness)zone alarm(useless)and outpost(too bloated) but if you can tel me a better firewall to use then please do.
oo i voted foobar....the fact that its just a explorer window makes it look terrible.
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My vote goes to trillian. That piece of software REALLY is not that good. It used to be but now it's just as good as anything else you can use.
Oh before I forget, ad aware is also overrated...
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I use trillian, i think its okay. Only thing i have against it is since if has so many features it loads slow.
evilmegaman .. what do you use other then trillian and aim?
I happen to love my sygate (which is configured quite well), I use firefox daily (and have no probs, it's never crashed for me), and listen to all my tunes with Winamp.
How's about them apples?
i agree, this would have to represent the creme de la creme of this topic
WIN ME was simply an obvious, gratuitous, unnecessary wastes of resources released not out of innovation or technological acumen but only out of a desire to cash in on the passing of an arbitrary point on a calendar
nothing to see here
videolan has tons of options in my OPINION; the subtitles (not always detectd though) , plays 99% of video files, but sometimes a little bad with wmv's.
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well i think the ones listed are the most under rated, the most over rated would be WMP, MSN Messenger, and IE/Outlook
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totaly agree with ourthing2. either grabgrab just had a real bad day or he's a windows-troll. cant tell, dont know him. and firefox by the way is no "windows software", its avialable for many platforms. worst windows software would really have to be windoze xp/outlook/messenger/wmp and IE. greez...
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Here Here - and can I also add SP2 for winXP?
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firefox is pretty overrated I like Opera so much better... but I'm not a fanboy. Use IE if you like, or firefox ... Opera is nice but so what if you don't like it.
winamp is WAY overrated with is bloated interface.
sygate firewall .. better than nothing for suckers without NAT routers ... or IPtables. I was a kerio user myself.
Never used foobar, etc
iTunes is probably the most overrated software ever. It sucks so much, I can't see how anyone could want to use it.
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