Dinosaur Software
I bought a new notebook installed with Windows Vista in August 2007. I then installed other programs. Disappointed, nowadays commercail commercial software is too big to be useful, and is sometimes annoying.
Useful functions may have been exhausted. New functions come with new versions are too fancy or too advance. An average user just needs a few basic functions. If he pays for a commercial product, 99% will be wasted. It is simply not worth for.
Norton Ghost 12.0
It now forces a scheduled back up, runs on background, slowing down every other program. It deserves its name now because it really haunts (forgive the pun). When I am done with e-mail, I cannot shut down my computer because the back up is not through yet. For an average user, backing up the C drive twice a week is too much. But that is what Ghost does by default. Worse, I need to wade through the interface to turn off the schedule. I do not want Ghost to run unless I ask it to. At last, I turn to freeware DriveImageXML. It may not be as good as Ghost, but gives me all I want, and nags me much less.
Dr Eye 8.0
It takes up 1G, and does not work well with Vista. Freeware Stardict , on the contrary, occupies several dozens MB, performs reasonably good, and has a much wider range of dictionaries to choose from.
Adobe Acrobat CS3
Adobe Acrobat CS3 occupies 1G. However, all I want is simply to turn some documents into PDF, plus a few options like setting passwords, water marks or embedded fonts. And I do not think even an average company needs more. Ghostscript and FreePDF, 33 MB combined, give me all I need, free of charge. Anyone pays for that 1G, very likely, 960 MB will be rarely used, if not wasted.
A shepherd is good enough for my house. A dinosaur? No thanks.
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