An interesting article for you about Windows 7...
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Microsoft is like Obama.....cannot trust a word either of them say.
The User Account Control (UAC) feature that debuted with Vista was a security safeguard that asked users for permission before allowing applications to run. The nagware technology irked users and was blamed for producing numerous largely meaningless pop-ups that users blithely clicked past.
Oh I see how this works...
First have UAC, bark about how annoying it is.
Ok, tone UAC down...
NOW bark about how “less safe” Windows 7 is!
Send to a notorious MS bash site, summon Apple fanatics, bash Windows 7.
How idiotic.
Much as I like Trend Micro’s products, I disagree with them here. Things that are too annoying get turned off. Completely off.
The smoke alarm by my kitchen has no sensitivity control. In addition to battery it has hard wired power. In addition to hard wire it “talks” to the other eight smoke detectors. It goes off when spaghetti is boiled, making the whole house go off. If you remove the wired connection, it uses the battery to complain about the lack of a wired connection. So, I had to completely disable it.
In likewise, obnoxious Windows nags get turned off ... really off. If the defaults aren’t too obnoxious, they’ll be left alone. How many of us got nagged every 10 minutes to restart our PCs when a significant patch was put in? At lease 7 lets you slow the nagging on demand to every few hours.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2378046/posts
Bottom line. If you are running without any anti-virus software, you're an idiot.
Windows 7 is awesome; I haven’t had one glitch yet. It also boots and shuts down faster than Vista I also liked Vista and had no problems with it either except for UAC; which probably every user turned off.
What, now we need another program to tell us our virus dats are out of date; c’mon, this is not a big or even little problem, especially if you once again, turn off UAC.
More FUD.
I’ve got a G3 MAC I’m dying to get os/X on it but it won’t install. I put in a DVD reader, added 1gb of memory but it won’t load past the first step. Any Apple experts with any ideas! Thank you.
How did I know even before I clicked that they’d say UAC slightly lower nuisance factor would be why it’s “less” secure? The reality of use is that because UAC was so painfully annoying before the first 4 clicks most users made was turning the damn thing off, Windows 7’s UAC while defaulting to less secure is actually usable enough that people might leave it on. So really it’s more secure.
That's not what I'm seeing. On my Win 7 test box I'm running into a problem with how the AV software I threw on it isn't "talking" to Windows security center fast enough so I'm getting warnings on both conditions (no AV then out of date) every time I boot.
Simply an annoyance since it's rectified in 10-15 seconds after WSC gets the message but certainly it's flagging it.
Odd.
An OS shouldn’t have to be annoying as hell and be a miserable experience to run to be secure.
At the same time, users need to get smart about using a computer. People shouldn’t NEED annoying pop up messages to know whether or not they have AV apps installed. They should also know not to run potentially dangerous files from untrusted sources. They should also know better than to use IE...
i purchased win 7 and find annoying that
neither firefox nor explorer work correctly.
in fact, both crash often.
