This. Lambasting autorun as an obvious design flaw is really betraying a lack of perspective on what's actually important in a computer's design. Yes, security

This. Lambasting autorun as an obvious design flaw is really betraying a lack of perspective on what's actually important in a computer's design. Yes, security is important, but making it easy for normal people to use the computer was much, much more important, and hiding people from the crap at the core of windows (like needing to hunt down blah.exe) was a very important part of that.