Are windows users mouth breathing morons

Sure, we got notice for putting safari on computers that we had Itunes on, but you know as a Windows Vista and XP user, it was really simple to click on quit, no don’t want the crap ware update, and then move along to go do things that we were going to do with the computer anyways.

No down time, no loss of productivity, and most of all No Safari browser. Like I need three browsers on my desk top.

Then comes along a great read from “The Angry Drunk” who basically calls the unwanted but easily stopped safari update what it is ‘a whiny meme’. Heck if we are going to talk about “bad windows citizens” lets take a look at some real gangsters, bot net herders, virus writers, and that whole lot.

Second, bitching that anyone is a “bad” Windows citizen is the rhetorical equivalent of arguing that one turd in a sea of shit is particularly stinky. Microsoft is a bad Windows citizen. And I’ll tell you, having Safari magically appear on my computer pales in comparison to the times I’ve come back from lunch to find that all my work has been killed by a Windows update (the first fucker who tells me how to disable that gets tazed in the genitals…I know how to disable it). Source: The Angry Drunk

We all have our horror stories, and not that I am a drooling apple fan anyways, every OS has issues, every browser has issues, and every update has issues. This is why we have legions of crappy security people at every company short of a mom and pop or a super small startup. Seriously, that safari update just gave a lot of people a lot of job security because it has a lot of known ways of being hacked and broken. Not that any other browser is necessarily better or safer, or more standards compliant.

Pushing an update with some one’s bright idea of something that people would want, that is ok, because it is really simple to say “no”. If you don’t want it say no, but if you are a foaming at the mouth apple Ipod fan or Iphone fan without the MAC, hey you might want to try it, and if you have ever tried to navigate the apple web site it is a load of difficult to follow links and animations.

What would be interesting to see is what the install base looks like, we all know about the IE install base, and the Firefox install base, but how many times are those programs actually used? Install base is a joke, the push from apple was a joke, the whole meme is funny as hell. This is very easy to “get over” and just do the Nancy Regan thing, Just say No.