Windows Vista named in top 10 terrible tech products

Posted at: 11:55am 26th November 2007 by Ben Hardwidge

Microsoft’s new OS rubs shoulders with the Sinclair C5 and Amstrad Em@iler in CNet’s hall of shame

There are plenty of obvious contenders when you’re thinking of the worst tech gizmos of all time. Nintendo’s VirtualBoy always gets a good kicking, as does the Apple Newton, but CNet reckons that Windows Vista is now worthy of a place in the ‘top ten terrible tech products,’ along with other offenders such as the Sinclair C5, Atari Jaguar and Amstrad Em@iler.

Among CNet’s reasons for Vista’s inclusion was the principle that ‘any operating system that quietly has a downgrade-to- previous-edition option introduced for PC makers deserves to be classed as terrible technology.’ The site also said that Vista’s ‘incompatibility with hardware, its obsessive requirement of human interaction to clear security dialogue box warnings and its abusive use of hated DRM, not to mention its general pointlessness as an upgrade, are just some examples of why this expensive operating system earns the final place in our terrible tech list.’

Of course, you can always disable Vista’s User Account Control system, and you’re only affected by the DRM features if you want to play HD media on Vista, so does Vista really deserve to be listed next to the Gizmondo as a terrible tech product?

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