Who the hell designs all this God-awful software these days? There is more poorly written, unstable, insultingly-hand-holdy but slightly glamorous software in existence today than there are water molecules in, on and around the Earth.

Everything feels the need to hold your hand through every single activity you might want to do and most don’t even offer a way of disabling these pointless features. I probably wouldn’t complain if I could see even a wafer-thin shred of usefulness, but I genuinely can’t. Typical example of this being that immensely annoying protection method of everyone’s favourite IM client: MSN Messenger. Whoever the hell decided that it should decide to block access to some files with certain extensions to “protect your security” should be shot in the leg and thrown to the rapists.

“Protect your security,” what a ridiculous statement. (continue reading…)