Hear! Hear! <g> keith whaley
Bob Walkden wrote: > > 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]
