frankieh wrote:
But having said that, they spend millions researching usability, and the fact is, they do that side of things very well.
Perhaps too well, they have made owning and using a PC, so easy that most people using windows have no idea that they need to protect themselves and their data from virus's, spyware, keyloggers and all that other stuff. (and Windows doesn't help them to protect themselves, at least before SP2 it didn't.)
To be honest:If MS released windows the way it supposed to be, there shouldn't be a need of SP1 and SP2. But MS has too many coders working on too many projects and these projects can't be tested in all possible combinations amongst eachother for the fact if they're fool- AND hack-proof.
But if Windows XP would have been that properly protected back then, as it is now, nobody would have bought it since the PC hardware of that time was not fast enough to be able to handle such bulky and overheaded software MS releases. And honestly, today most common machines experience a tremendous backdraft in speed when SP2 is installed.
I stick to the really critical security packs (meaning shit that the firewall of my router can't stop AKA leaks in MS broadcast and receive applications etc.) and that's it.
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