They Got It All Wrong

A collection of things done wrong.

Windows user interface which has many modes, ranging from click-activated (rather than press-activated) menus to buried options that control behavior.
Keyboard layout which limits typing speed (some say intentionally). See BadKeyboards.
Information persistence in relational databases. See AreRdbmssDead.
Struggling to make programming as easy as possible so that the least capable thinkers can write the rules of the new economy. Amen. User-hostile software!
Internet E-mail standards that make it ridiculously easy to forge E-mail
Letting people program without learning programming Amen again!
Letting people learn to program without programming (See: EssentialDifficulty)
Not changing to the metric system when it was introduced. Warning: AmericanCulturalAssumption and/or BritishCulturalAssumption at work.
Calling the electric charge of the electron negative and the complex numbers complex.