Thoughts about some software companies

After years of using the products of various computer software and hardware companies, the following comes to mind:

Intel: We are still the underdog with close to 80% market share.

EA: Every game is a rush job, we want your money for bad quality. Our games aren't actually all ours, but we make sure they get rushed out. Patches don't fix up the lack of proper development.

Microsoft: Bug, bug, bug, memory leaks, features and more features. All expensive. A lot of stuff is buggy, but we do produce some very good stuff on occasions. With every version of our software, everything becomes bigger, and that includes the on-screen buttons! Mostly great games! Installers for software development with anything other than default settings may crash. We make our own standards and force the on everybody who uses globally decided standards. Superior inflated prices. We invested the favorites icon, but after so many versions over many years, our software still does not support it properly. Maybe in the next version... Our operating systems lack certain user-friendliness configuration features, just to annoy you.

Symantec: Full system integration, you can't get rid of our stuff properly with the uninstall. New versions of our big applications are exactly the same with a slightly changed interface, but still the same lack of actual improvement. Even if you do not decide to install a part of a package, it will still be installed. Our software improves your PC by slowing it down a lot.

Blizzard: Good stuff when the bugs are finally sorted out. Our strategy games have the instant rush with no resources feature.

Bioware: Our games have nothing to do with chess, but we have tons of chess maps. Loading, loading, loading, loading, loading, loading... everything is being loaded separately. Tile sets are us!. Our update system is totally useless and cumbersome to use. No, you have to have all of those giant updates. We don't care if you are forced to use a 56K modem. Great game engine, some of the clothing you have to images (like cloaks). No freebies for you. Don't even install when you have a motherboard with a VIA chipset, our installers don't work on those (why not???). Our newsletters just want to sell, sell, sell! In our games you can expect: predictable storyline, no money (look at items but don't touch), slowdowns, stupid situations, and many much more.

Corel: Bugs, memory leaks and total instability. Just stick to the DTP stuff, don't touch the rest, since we don't specialise on that (see previous sentence).

Genius: How would you like you hub chips to be fried? Some of our drivers don't always work.

Google: We publish software packages from other companies that are not always useful.

Yahoo!: Messenger will not allow you to use it properly on two different computers (at home and at work) at separate moments in time. Later you will not log in anywhere. Our groups admin is still lacking some features after many updates.

Codemasters: Bugs in the making, lacking functionality