A good rant on bloatware with five prime examples

A fine rant about five programs that take up way to much space and resources for what they do. Adobe Acrobat is #1 From the Download Squad:

The 5 most annoying programs on your PC
Elephantware. That is what we are talking about. Bloated programs that make brand new PCs boot like Pentium 2s with 64 MBs of RAM.

This is software that causes your screen to freeze while it works, consumes enough system resources to display a reminder box letting you know there is a new, even bigger, version available for download. Software we've been forced to install so we can read some special document format, enjoy some DRM infected piece of media, or communicate with others who also live with the same brand of behemoth riding on their backs.

We all have it. We are all stuck with it. And, aside from a glimmer or two of hope, we can't expect to escape their boot screens, quick launch icons, or update reminders anytime soon.

They missed Office 2008 -- in my opinion, Office hit its stride with 2003 and everything before and after is much worse... I used to work for Microsoft and when they announced that they were discontinuing 2003, I bought a bunch of copies so that I could install it on new machines that I build. Same thing for WindowsXP. Enough is enough...