Download Squad has posted a sarcastic The 5 most annoying programs on your PC, and predictably, Adobe's Acrobat Reader takes top spot, ahead of iTunes (for Windows), Real Player, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook. But how Apple's QuickTime player (for Windows) and Symantec escaped notice remains a mystery.....
The bloated, buggy, resource-consuming Acrobat Reader, with its mediocre functionality and horrible user interface, is a personal pet hate. In fact, one of the advantages of keeping Process Explorer open all the time is that I can keep terminating the damn thing. Unfortunately, Adobe keeps it in memory (Acrord32 etc) even after you've closed whatever PDF you were reading.
Of course, Acrobat Reader is nothing like as bad as IBM's Lotus Notes (for Mac), which is by some distance the nastiest piece of crap that's ever been foisted upon my unwilling machines. But the Download Squad writers may not have had the pleasure....
Feel like a whinge? Which application annoys you most?
