December 17, 2005

Why I’m ashamed to be involved with software sometimes

Every once in a while, I see something that makes me ashamed to be involved with software development in general. I just feel embarassed on behalf of the entire industry because of some horrendous piece of UI.

Here’s the latest offender:

So let me get this straight, I used the Check for Updates component of Rhapsody, it downloads and installs the newest version, and then it tells me that my log in is tied to a previous version?

What the heck?

Click here to post a comment -- Posted by: dtc @ 1:43 pm

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