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Another way of interpreting this would be "Microsoft wants to get out of your way, it wants to be a (ubiquitous) platform so you can focus on what you're actual
by stdbrouw 13y ago
Another way of interpreting this would be "Microsoft wants to get out of your way, it wants to be a (ubiquitous) platform so you can focus on what you're actually trying to do rather than on your OS or your device." Doesn't sound that awful to me.
- kordless 13y agoI think its a general enough statement you can say whatever you want about it and it would make some sense. That said, it's seriously lacking intent. Being everything to all people, all wrapped up in a single 'strategy' isn't necessarily going to solve the problems related to designing and building great software.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- JonFish85 13y ago...says the company who brought you the UAC popups :)
- marshray 13y agoDo you prefer sudo or just to login as root directly?
- Aldo_MX 13y agoTBH I don't perceive UAC popups as "something intrusive", they could be better, but they do their work fine: to stop non-tech savvy users from screwing up the PC.
- archangel_one 13y agoNo, they don't save the non-tech savvy users. They click "yes, I want to see the dancing bunnies" every time they see a UAC popup. They do make it reasonably pleasant to run Windows as a non-admin user though, and not the impossibility that was in XP.
- Aldo_MX 13y agoThey can't click "yes, I want to see the dancing bunnies" when you are the system administrator ;).
- bdcravens 13y agosudo chmod -R 777 / Unobtrusiveness FTW!
- bashinator 13y agoI call this "The MS-DOS Security Model".