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25 worst tech products

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May 26, 20061 min

PC World has gathered 25 products so bad that they belong in the high-tech hall of shame. IDG contributer Dan Tynan writes:

At PC World, we spend most of our time talking about products that make your life easier or your work more productive. But it’s the lousy ones that linger in our memory long after their shrinkwrap has shriveled, and that make tech editors cry out, “What have I done to deserve this?”

You’ll find AOL at the top of the list: “How do we loathe AOL? Let us count the ways.”; but RealPlayer and Microsoft take hist for some versions of their core software.

Ahh, it is fun to relish the real duds. Care to share any of your favorite flunkies? Talk back to us below

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Mike Barton started out in online slinging HTML for CNET.com in the late 1990s and began his editorial career at New Media magazine shortly thereafter. In his early days, he was an editor at Ziff-Davis's PC Computing and ZDNet.com before heading Down Under, where he produced and edited the business and technology sections of The Sydney Morning Herald online. After returning to the States in 2006, he has worked for IDG's Infoworld, PCWorld, Computerworld, and CSO Online. He currently edits and produces WIRED.com's Innovation Insights, and is a contributing editor at ITworld.

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