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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22069 |  DrSP (4) Aug 27, 2009 - 07:08 am
| » Apple commercials not as hard hitting
The Mac commercials used to be pretty hard hitting, but since I've seen the new Windows commercials, these two Mac commercials aren't all that great.
For example (Windows) the girl that was able to find a 17" laptop for under $1000, the 5 year old that uses Windows Photo Gallery to get pics off her camera...MS ads are now much better. For all the money MS spends on these commercials though, I've only seen each of them twice. The Mac commercials play over and over though...The mac commercials for that reason I think will be more effective. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22069 | DrSP (4) Aug 27, 2009 - 07:01 am
| » Security-less operation of a PC
Nothing to do with Apple, but...I run my Vista laptop without a firewall, virus, malware, or adware scanner. I've done this for a number of years now. The routers I use at home and work are the only protection that sit between myself and the net. On my girlfriend's computer on the other hand, there HAS to be a suite of software to protect her. This has bit me in the ass once in the last 9 years. I go surfing for porn all the time. You need to know what you can open and what you can't open. It's mostly only computer (not tech) savy people that know the difference between an executable and a quicktime movie.
Everything is about education
What SCHOOLS can do:
Part of a basic school computer class should be to show people what EXE, com, batch and VBS files are. The difference between them and standard movie files. AS WELL, students should be shown how a movie CAN be an executable, and how the risk in running such an executable hoping that it in fact is a movie is stupendous.
What Microsoft can do:
It's a small thing, but Microsoft since 2001 has defaulted to not showing file extensions for known file types. Stop dumbing users down. Most users have NO CLUE that these extensions exist yet they are a very basic part of how Windows displays files. They need to know that EXEs run by themselves while most other file extensions need an EXE program to run them.
What WE can do:
Display some freaking willpower and some common sense. When popups show up, most users do one of two things.
The first: Reach for the OK button.
The second: Call someone else over.
READ WHAT IT SAYS! I've had users ask me to fix a popup on their desktop after performing a backup routine. The popup simply stated "Backup completed succesfully". They didn't bother reading. Another person, while they had called me for a another problem, received a popup saying they had been infected by a virus. The person simply clicked ok, and told me not to worry about it, it had peen poping up randomly for almost a week. BALLS!
If people were just a bit more educated and exposed to some inner workings of Windows software they wouldn't be screwed over as much. Flag this | Edit this post |
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