This post was posted by me as an OT reply of another thread: http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=465416

As I do not want to make CPUWizard's thread totally offtopic, I want you to complain about silly things you encounter in IT here. Any discussion (in case I rant with no reason or because of some kind of ignorance on my side) is welcome!


I think that we need to introduce new measurement of software quality: it would be expressed in percentage of cases it works correctly. Like, you know: "This Windows XP is whole heavelny 98% good! Not that [bad word] 50% Windows 98 was!" or "This new Java Enterprise Server is just lousy 70%'er, I had problems configurating it on 2 machines, and I can't get some stuff to work on remaining ones". I think you get the idea. It's just because nowadays, when silicon is cheap, mass storage is really massive, and so on, the only things that grow are system requirements and advertisement folders for new software. Quality drops dead, "brand-new, improved, easy to configure and deploy software which makes your industry running on top levels" is usually slow, unconfigurable, undeployable, expensive. Or, is that just me?
And tell me, what is the difference in FUNCTIONALITY, ERGONOMY and USABILITY between Word '97 and Word TheNewestOne, which justifies tens to hundreds times bigger minimal requirements?

Doh, I could go with this for hours...

My next post in this thread will be about XML abuse, i think Or, any of you may go with it.