On Sunday 23 October 2005 06:27 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > This is a straw-man argument. Anybody who actually cares about their data > keeps a good set of backups anyway.
Then you are not familiar with the legions of PC users who know nothing of making backups, care a lot about their data, and only realize they should have learned about regular backups when the data turns to toast. I think this is the biggest failure of every OS install (or more generally a lack of evolution in design). While providing a desktop system with all the common office programs, there is no prompting for setting up a backup procedure. It's not that people are lazy (okay, some are) but just clueless. AFAIK, there is not a single vendor of PC's that provides a robust system out of the box that includes a ready-to-go backup/recovery procedure. It's always something left to the user. It's like selling a car without a spare and a jack.