Apple has pretty much used the original Apple Human Interface Guidelines documents for toilet paper (there are three or four different title bar types in OS X),

Apple has pretty much used the original Apple Human Interface Guidelines documents for toilet paper (there are three or four different title bar types in OS X), and Microsoft has even moved the IE6 malware warning dialogs around in a service pack (SP2, security enhancements, moving the warnings into the yellow bar in the top of the renderable space). It's mind bogglingly stupid and completely inexcusable. We, as the leaders, experts, and geeks of the community have failed to demand verifiable, non-forgeable desktop experiences for critical steps, instead electing to say "tee hee hee, this idiot didn't notice the HAND POINTER! how stupid, i'd never do that!" Remember Windows 98? Active Desktop? Underlined filenames on icons and single click to execute? Yep. Hand pointer on mouseover. We're the idiots, not them. edit: arrgh, i just looked. This single click thing is still in XP. Tools -> Folder Options, it's right on the first screen. <frustration> lakjflkwjlewijlewfjljk</frustration>