> >Windows' biggest problem is installing the default user as the admin. Don't >run as an admin and security problems vanish. Now, if we can only get these >idiot developers to stop coding their products to only run if the user is an >admin.
The problem is only partially "idiot developers." I would say a bigger problem is idiot 'softies: 1) pretending they have a mulit-user OS when they really don't. This is demonstrated by your complaing of "too many steps." Windows does not need these steps because there is no real security there. It is like a kid's "computer" you buy for $10 at Toys-R-Us: lots of dials and buttons, but nothing inside the box. 2) not providing a proper API for developers A good example is font management software because it has to heavily interact with the OS. Compare features in Suitcase for Mac with Suitcase for Windows. You can't argue that Extensis doesn't know what features are needed because they are in the Mac version of Suitcase. Yet the Windows version of Suitcase is bare bones. The reason is that the Windows API is severely deficient. Extensis can't get at the functions they need to program a decent product. On the Mac a regular user can run Suitcase -- not so on Windows. I use Extensis as an example because they are a leader in this category. If you test the other Windows font managers (as I have) you won't find these missing features there either. Font management under Windows is a decade behind the Mac's due to API defects. It is not just a problem with developers. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
