15 April 2008 · Jeffery
M$:We just want to annoy you!
“The reason we put UAC into the (Vista) platform was to annoy users–I’m serious”
from David Cross, a product unit manager at Microsoft.
That guy seems in charge of designing User Account Control (UAC). That always prompt if you try to install a program/driver/change config…
I can’t imagine how they design function, with that “Smart” vision.
Source: Microsoft: Vista feature designed to ‘annoy users’
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April 17th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
2 worst-of-all “features” I have seen:
(1) open a file for the first time triggers a double-confirmation. “Are you sure you really wanna open it”?
(2) plug USB drives in ->check drivers, scan files, I don’t actually know what it’s doing, and you can start accessing it after 3 mins.
Even Ben complains the above function to be awful. I can’t see any value unless Vista is supposed to be build for NASA.
April 17th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
For the (1) “features”, Leopard also introduce similar thing. For the downloaded file, the 1st time you open it will triggers a dialog. I think it is annoying too. Just not as powerful as that of Vista. That will dim the screen too….
For the (2), I really no comment lu…
Ben using vista? (come with his powerful game machine?)
IF, NASA use their technology, I can’t imagine how danger of their mission.
Consider a USB driver need 3 mins to startup…