Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 19th Jan 2007 16:33 UTC, submitted by jayson.knight
With the imminent release of Windows Vista to consumers this month, Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, has claimed Microsoft's latest desktop effort is over-hyped and not a revolutionary advancement. "I don't actually think that something like Vista will change how people work that much," Torvalds told Computerworld. "I think it, to some degree, has been over-hyped as being something completely new and I don't actually think it is."
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2006-04-18
1. Protecting the dumb trashware-installing-users from themselves by annoying them with security windows and running a lot of things with lower privileges. (at least 1/2 of my service calls are due to infestation)
Users are going to *maybe* read the message once, maybe not, and click OK. After that, they'll just click OK without thinking about it, just as with most installs you just click Next until it changes to finish.
A guy I knew in college used to get an error upon booting his computer every day. He used to click it before the text even rendered. "What did that say?" "I don't know, it comes up every day."