Hi, Thursday, August 14, 2003, 12:54:09 AM, you wrote:
> In today's environment, if you are > running XP and you're not checking for updates on a daily basis, you got > rocks in your head! probably the overwhelming majority of people running Windows are ordinary, non-geeky types who haven't a clue that there is such a facility, who don't know what a worm, a firewall, port, rpc or whatever is, who don't want to know, and shouldn't need to know, any more than they need to know any of the technical crap about their fridge, washing machine, TV or car. Loading the responsibility for this onto the PC owners, rather than onto Microsoft who wrote such crap in the first place, is like blaming car drivers for crashes when the manufacturers build their cars wrong. I have 20+ years of IT experience and I still got hit by the worm. When I first got XP I kept getting a lot of damn stupid pop-up ads from pornographers through the background messenger service. It took me a couple of days to figure out how to turn it off. Other people I know put up with it for a very long time, completely baffled by what was going on. It only stopped when I turned it off for them. PCs are a consumer goodie, they're not just for geeks, yet the people who write these overblown, excessively complex operating systems - and it's not just Windows - seem to expect everybody who uses them to know everything there is to know about them. This is unrealistic, not to say arrogant, and is no doubt responsible, at least partly, for the widespread fear & loathing of computers and of IT people. We're long overdue in our industry for a major change of attitude. We shouldn't expect people to be computer-literate, we should build systems that are people-literate. -- Cheers, Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
