Dell are running an ‘Idea Storm‘ website to gather peoples opinions on what they’d like to see on their PCs. So far feedback from this site was one of the driving factors in reintroducing Windows XP as an option in addition to Vista.
Should Dell ship Firefox? Let them know your opinion.
In the Netherlands take up of Firefox is one of the lowest in Europe. The European average is 24%, the UK it’s 18% and in Finland it’s an amazing 41.3%. But in the Netherlands it’s just 13.3%.
Although I run Mac OS X as a primary platform I still have to keep up to date with Windows and so that meant I had to buy Vista when it first came out.
A lot of jokes as well as serious criticism has been made about Microsoft’s user access control (UAC) in Vista. The main problem with UAC is caused by applications that are poorly written and expect to run with administrator rights. This has been caused by shoddy development over the years where many people had written software with the assumption it would be run as the administrator user or sometimes the software was old and written for the Windows 9x series that had no access control. (more…)