Ten flawed products that derail productivity

[shenley]

I have used all of these except for Unity and I fully concur that these products are a hindrance. Link: Ten flawed products that derail productivity

[tech_guy]

I haven't looked, but is Windows on the list?

[dannyuk]

I agree with all of the above!

[sparkeh]

Acronis: Yes - awesome when its working, hellish if something goes wrong.
Unity: agreed.
Flash: Yes, yes, yes! Hopefully it will die soon.
Regarding AV i do not agree with this: "Some business-class antivirus tools actually work — Symantec Endpoint Protection is one" - I am not a fan.

[TheLibrarian]

They missed Adobe CS4 suite.

[achedgy]

Outlook talks just lovely to my exchange server thanks, all it needs is internet access

[sonofsanta]

I think Adobe in general can be added. Acrobat is a pain and has plentiful updates, despite supposedly being software designed for a format meant to be completely secure, at least until the feature creep kicked in. Flash is obviously a pain. AIR and Shockwave similarly afflicted. Acrobat Pro occasionally decides that the installation source is corrupted forcing me to repatch/rebuild the MSIs. Creative Suite has many well known shenanigans. Just... such PITA