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Article #291854Re: [Anti] Vista Blog
From: Luc The Perverse
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:58
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:58
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"The Ignorant Asian" <ste...@nodomainname.com> wrote in message news:45fe6b3d_1@news.tm.net.my... > If there is such a feature, I am intrigue to know more. Folder and user > rights permissions is what we administrators have been dreaming off since > day one. For corporate environment, the users are not supposed to have > administrator's account. THE IT DEPARTMENT IS THE LORD AND MASTER! : I highly doubt it. It was probably hard coded somewhere by some intern programmer. > BAH! Big deal! Even if I were to have read your ranting thus far, I would > still agree with Bill Gates and install Vista anyway. Users need to be > controlled (with an iron fists if I may add :P) and that is final! I said I can understand such a restriction being an option. What I cannot understand is it being denied by default. That is messed up. I'm sure there are a lot of sadomasichistic people who would love to install an OS that lets them do nothing. Of course, it is cheaper to have no OS at all ;) > We administrators gets kinda edgy whenever a user calls up and says that > their icon to the ERP system is missing from their desktop. It makes you > feel like taking out a shot gun and blow them away in pieces. Of course if > the request were to be coming from your computer illiterate boss, you have > to be happy to oblidge (with some self swearing). Touch�e. Keep in mind, Vista is currently being shoved down home users' throats - Windows XP can still be sold as business machines without threat of loss of kickbacks. > What feature is that? My time spend with Vista was kinda limited. You lost me somewhere. > Well, you're not supposed to play with Codecs at work :p I wasn't at work ;) Putty just as easily could have been a D.O.S. client, or a password grabbing trojan horse -- LTP :)
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