Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Oct 2008 21:46 UTC
The Engineering 7 blog continues its trend of detailing the real issues that people deal with when it comes to Windows. We have already covered their insights, usage data, and mea culpas concerning the taskbar, as well as their musings on window management. The latest entry on the E7 blog deals with a controversial Windows issue: User Account Control. The usage data has some interesting results, to say the least.
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I'm with you though about the Norton branded products - their personal firewall was awful.
It's hard to imagine Norton making anything that *isn't* awful (well, other than Ghost).
Even removing Norton's crap is a hassle - I've literally seen the uninstall process for their "Internet Security Suite" take an hour and 45 minutes (during which the computer couldn't be used at all, because uninstalling required a reboot & the uninstall process loaded *before* / outside of Windows for some reason).
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I am loving the windows 7 research blog. its nice feeling liek your part of the development and knowing whats going on. this was somethign that was needed in vista was to get the geek comunity on board with all the under the hood stuff and changes. having everythign walked through like they are doing is great.
now as for UAC, not only is MS rethinking it but other companies are modding it to even symantec http://www.nortonlabs.com/inthelab/uac.php ( just like the norton 2009 rewrite, actualy a decent product. though now that norton redid ther AV and 09 is good i will have to find someone else to hate out of principal, sorry mcafee. haha).
its one thing to have the user aware of system level changes but it doesnt od them any good if they dont know what it means. it would be like a doctor talking ot the family of a patient who has a complex condition and needs a complex treatment. the thought that they are going ot understand enough to truly give an informed consent is insane, such is the same with your average user and UAC. I have a lot of faith in windows 7, but until then i am looking even more forward to Windows Embeded Standard ( http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/products/westandard/... )fully funtional windows, built to order, and if done right less than a 150 meg insall fully funcional. now why cant that be an option upon install to begin with... a man can dream cant he, a man can dream...