Is anyone out there listening?
When did software get annoying? There was a time when a new release of a popular program was so exciting and useful that we couldn't wait to try it out. Now, some software seems like it's deliberately designed to irritate you, with everything from persistent update and registration requests to sunset policies that cripple perfectly good applications. Marketers have taken over product design, and the products are the worse for it.
I talked to other editors here at PC World to compile this list of some of the most irritating developments in software. Let's hope the software publishers out there are listening.
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When did software get annoying? There was a time when a new release of a popular program was so exciting and useful that we couldn't wait to try it out. Now, some software seems like it's deliberately designed to irritate you, with everything from persistent update and registration requests to sunset policies that cripple perfectly good applications. Marketers have taken over product design, and the products are the worse for it.
I talked to other editors here at PC World to compile this list of some of the most irritating developments in software. Let's hope the software publishers out there are listening.
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