Software Hall of Shame

[unixronin]

Disney and Scholastic share a Software Hall of Shame raspberry today.

For what?  Disney Magic Artist Deluxe and Scholastic I Spy Fantasy.

Why?

Because they're both children's games — young children, as in Wendy's is giving I Spy Fantasy away in Kids' Meals — that require Administrator privileges to run.

FAIL.

Don't these people ever think before they write code?

Comments

[cipherpunk.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, there are still a lot of Windows 98/ME installations out there.

Win2K was meant for Corporate America, not for home users. They got to wait until 2001, and even then, adoption wasn't really big until mid-2002.

XP is six and a half years old. Long in the tooth, sure — but if you're going to make a mass-market giveaway promotion, you have to consider the remaining 98/ME crowd. Much as I would like it to be otherwise.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

XP is six and a half years old. Long in the tooth, sure — but if you're going to make a mass-market giveaway promotion, you have to consider the remaining 98/ME crowd. Much as I would like it to be otherwise.

True, but it still needs to run on the XP boxen too. And preferably the Vista ones.