All users. Nerdy, not nerdy, office workers, programmers, grannies. People don’t like app tours, they don’t take app tours. There’s a reason why MS is just about the only company left that bothers with those things, and I won’t be surprised if their next wave of apps doesn’t include them, heck Windows7/ 2008R2 has basically dropped the tour already. It is simply not something people are interested in.
As I’ve pointed out to you many times, that button DOES NOT make the tour go away for every. STOP LYING.
No even sysadmins don’t read thick documentation. They don’t have time, your average thick doc fora server side app is close to 1000 pages long, a Sysadmin is going to be dealing with a dozen different apps at least, they don’t have the time or reason to read through a thick doc knowing that by the time they need to use the information in there they’ll have already forgotten it. The most people use thick docs for is reference material, if they need to do X they’ll try to find X in the index, if they can’t find it they’ll either call tech support or go online. Thick docs are dead. Do you realize that 3 out of the 5 things you listed (all the MS stuff) don’t actually do thick docs anymore.
Home users and non-techies almost never know how to bring up the context sensitive help. You need to be a techie to know to hit F1 or to use the little question mark icon, and if you’re a techie you probably don’t need the info in it. Most companies have phased it out already. Heck even IE8 doesn’t implement the question mark icon the old way (if you click on it full help comes up, in full context sensitive help you click on the question mark then click on an item only a small popup with help on that item will come up).
Post installation tours have been phased out by most companies. MS likes to be behind the times on stuff.
Stupid users like you, yes. On the other hand, ALL users I know like the IE8 tour.
Given that you swore at the start of this thread that you had REMOVED all IE8 from all your computer right after installing it, how can you suddenly be an expert on IE 8 tour?
You already never installed IE 8 on all those famous (non existent) 25 computers of yours, no?
So what makes you an expert on how IE8 user experience of the IE8 tour then?
Tell us how many million Windows PC's you monitored and exactly where you gathered your statistics on IE8 user experience from will ya?
I dub thee the BIGGEST LIAR on FR.