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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 05:25 pm

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?

Thursday, March 12th, 2009 01:22 am (UTC)
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.