While I do understand their point (and, personally, I like the similar feature in OSX), the attitude is very indicitive of Microsoft’s problems (not to mention certain governement officials…).
David Cross:
“The reason we put UAC into the (Vista) platform was to annoy users–I’m serious,” said Cross, speaking at the RSA Conference here Thursday. “Most users had [...]
I can’t even imagine the size of this problem, if true
I also don’t understand the logic behind the decision that spawned this. If going to Windows7 means buying all new software, and/or patching code so extensively as to pale the Y2K crisis (and, contrary to the post, I believe it would far exceed Y2K) why [...]
I’m really impressed by the development team behind Internet Explorer 7.
They have completely stopped caring whether or not it works well.
I have to admire that level of zen-like detachment.
(I would KILL to know why, now that I’ve been forced to switch from Firefox to IE7 at work, my drive will just start running for, say, [...]
Well, we’ve been waiting for this since day 1. While I am particularly excited about the 3rd Party App SDK, the Exchange support is even more important. Without that, there’s no corporate email (as such), and without corporate email, there’s no market outside of personal use.
Apple adds Exchange support to iPhone, unveils SDK
March 6, 2008 [...]