It's not just your opinion. Mr. John McAfee himself, the guy who started the company and whose name it still bears, has publicly stated that McAfee software is "the worst software on the planet"!
If that isn't enough for people to avoid a brand name, then I don't know what is. But apparently, countless businesses are so clueless they keep using McAfee software even though its own founder says it's trash.
Although it's been molasses-slow in comparison to 3rd party tools since that time as well.
When I talk to these folks and probe why they think they need WinZip, they never say "oh, I was trying to uncompress a 7GB file the other day in Explorer and it took forever." They say "I'm on Windows, and this is a Zip, therefore I need WinZip." They're usually genuinely surprised to find out that this is something Windows can do all by itself.
> Since its release in Windows XP, Zip folders has not been actively developed. The reason is the usual: Because adding features requires engineering resources, and engineering resources are limited. Furthermore, since the compression and decompression code weren’t written by anybody from Microsoft, there is no expertise in the code base, which means that debugging and making changes is a very difficult undertaking.
seems to translate to ‘because we really don’t care’. It’s not as if Microsoft is strapped for cash.
They even killed ChromeOS ans Chorme updates for a bunch of 3 to 4 year old Chromebooks recently, despite the hardware being fine to run newer ChromeOS.
This is why brands have immense value.