Re: W32.Licum Gaelicum.A


"Virus Guy" <Virus@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Wouldn't it be nice to give grandma an OS that was safe
> "out-of-the-box" ???

While on your soapbox you switch back and forth between Microsoft's
admittedly buggy software and their penchant for the non-minimalist
approach to the 'out of the box' experience. Hundreds of thousands of
"grandma's" calling them up to ask how to re-configure their machine to
offer services they now feel they need for some reason was to be avoided
by the non-minimalist approach. So, Microsoft has polluted the internet
with "grandma servers" in this respect just as they have done with other
forms of allowing clueless users to use computers. If you are advocating
only clueful users be enabled to use computers, then you will run into
opposition from many folks. Microsoft has done quite alot to enable the
common man to use a computer, and you have to take the bad with the
good. All software can have bugs, and the more complex it is - the more
likely it is. A safe 'out of the box' OS would be a minimalist approach
because less of the bugs would be exposed to outside influences - and
less functionality would be offered the user without any re-configuring
done by said user. Many people on soapboxes would be complaining about
Microsoft not anticipating the needs and wants of the computing
community and making it so difficult for the grandma's to configure.


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