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The Year's Dumbest Moments in Tech 96

harrymcc writes "Over at TIME.com, I rounded up the year's dumbest moments in technology. Yes, the launch of Healthcare.gov is included, as are Edward Snowden's revelations. But so are a bunch of people embarrassing themselves on Twitter, both BlackBerry and Lenovo hiring celebrities to (supposedly) design products, the release of glitchy products ranging from OS X 10.9 Mavericks to the new Yahoo Mail, and much more." I can't think of anything dumber than the NSA's claims that metadata isn't data.
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The Year's Dumbest Moments in Tech

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  • Windows 8 (Score:5, Funny)

    by SpaceManFlip ( 2720507 ) on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @08:22PM (#45833733)
    Surely the list must include the "Angry Fruit Salad" operating system that sucks worse than anything previously offered?

    Yeah, I bought it cheap and I tried it. $40 and it sits unused currently because even after installing Classic Shell and doing a lot of unpaid work to fix what they broke, I still hate it.

  • by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @10:06PM (#45834307)

    Surely the list must include the "Angry Fruit Salad" operating system that sucks worse than anything previously offered?

    He already addressed Mac OS X.

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