The 25 worst tech products of all time
At PC World, we spend most of our time talking about products that make your life easier or your work more productive. But it's the lousy ones that linger in our memory long after their shrinkwrap has shrivelled, and that make tech editors cry out, "What have I done to deserve this?"
Picking a list of the 25 worst tech products that have been released in the lasty quarter-century or so wasn't exactly rocket science; it was more like group therapy. PC World staffers and contributors nominated their candidates and then gave each one the sniff test. We sought the worst of the worst -- operating systems that operated badly, hardware that never should have left the factory, applications that spied on us and fed our data to shifty marketers, and products that left a legacy of poor performance and bad behaviour.
