Which program do you hate using the most?

[editor]

For me it has to be Microsoft Money.

There's nothing particularly bad with the program itself but the only time I ever click on it is when I'm about to do my tax return - and that makes my heart sink.

Which program has the same effect on you?

 

[g force]

PowerPoint....way hey it's corporate presentation time

 

[middle C]

powerpoint!

 

[Crispy]

Openoffice

Because it's even worse than MS Office at making good looking documents without making your brain explode.

 

[Kanda]

MSTSC - cos it means I have to do some work

 

[twistedAM]

Word. Been using it for over 10 years and it still doesn't do what I want.

 

[Fruitloop]

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe. Utter shite.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

For me it has to be Microsoft Money.

There's nothing particularly bad with the program itself but the only time I ever click on it is when I'm about to do my tax return - and that makes my heart sink.

Which program has the same effect on you?

The new version of Word.

Old Word is something I use without even thinking about what I[m doing, the new layout is totally confusing

 

[teuchter]

Word.

And itunes.

 

[ddraig]

fucking SAP, SAPPY fucking SAP SAP!

 

[kained&able]

hijackthis.

means my system is very poorly.

dave

 

[FunkyUK]

iTunes
Adobe reader
Word 2003 & later

 

[editor]

Any time I have to go anywhere near QuickTime I know I'm in for grief.

 

[fractionMan]

outlook fucks me off.

 

[kained&able]

oooh real player!

o still have a few episodes of southpark i cant find in a decent format so have to resort to that pile of toss.


dave

 

[perplexis]

MS Powerpoint hideous piece of shit.

 

[Leafster]

Quickbooks! You can almost guarantee that the user has got carried away with all the easy functionality and forgotten all about basic accountancy principles so I'll have to rework a whole year's worth of data.

 

[bluestreak]

Openoffice

Because it's even worse than MS Office at making good looking documents without making your brain explode.

Aye. Although this particular build of Crystal Reports at the new job is rage inducing, because it's so clunkily put together, and I don't have an SQL bod sitting next to me to mess around with it on demand. It exports and instead of laying out the data it throws it around all over the place and requires half an hour's work just to get it into shape to process

 

[editor]

Quickbooks! You can almost guarantee that the user has got carried away with all the easy functionality and forgotten all about basic accountancy principles so I'll have to rework a whole year's worth of data.

You don't fancy reworking my year's worth of data, do you?

No. Thought not.

 

[Leafster]

You don't fancy reworking my year's worth of data, do you?

No. Thought not.

 

[jontz01]

Access, I have to use the useless POS all day long.

That and windows bloody media player...

 

[bluestreak]

Access? To be honest, I've worked in places that have spent many thousands of pounds on specialist databases when a simple Access would have done them far better.

 

[Wintermute]

Internet Explorer 6 - you just know that, no matter what design beauty and functional flair you've sacrificed in order to get something approaching a working site, you're about to see something that looks like it was assembled in a hurry by the work experience kid.

 

[ChrisFilter]

To all those Word and Powerpoint haters, have you tried Office 2007? Personally I think it's fucking superb.

 

[TheDave]

The statistics software my Psychology department uses, guaranteed to ruin your day.

 

[Crispy]

The statistics software my Psychology department uses, guaranteed to ruin your day.

SPSS?

 

[ajk]

I can't believe no-one's said Excel yet.

I fucking hate Excel.

 

[Dead Cat Bounce]

Dr Watson.

So Windows has crashed and you produce a 4gb file which fills up the hard disk so much that my users can't log on due to 'low disk space'

 

[editor]

Fuck you Money and your cheery little start up tune.

 

[Paul Russell]

I can't believe no-one's said Excel yet.

I fucking hate Excel.

Yes, timely, I know people use this a lot, but the only time I use Excel is once a year when I do my tax self-assessment, i.e. in the next few days.