Your point is valid, however people will click links on webpages and in emails as well. By switching to a generic client you are bypassing the security hassles (i.e. the things that cannot be helped) and you are left with the user having to be responsible just like they have to be on every web-based medium.
It is too bad that people are not aware of applications like gaim, trillian, etc. You get all the benefits and fewer risks (not to mention that you avoid all the bolted-on crap that comes with all the default clients).
We use MSN Messenger at my work and everyone uses the MSN client. Has anyone seen this embarrasment? There is so much crap tacked around the buddy and message windows that it is almost unusable. I am trying to move people over to trillian and it is not hard. Once they see a nice clean UI, they want to use it.
Remeber that upper management generally hates technical details. Explain how the widespread changes will benefit the company in relation to things that you know are important to them. Make sure that you underline the importance of the changes and the specifice benefits they entail; things like money saved, less training, less downtime, and less support calls.
wait until you have better things than a clock and "ColorJunction". Everyone's personalized google homepage will look like a webdesign 101 student who just learned how to cut 'n paste javascript.
to be any reason to fix them immediately. Common folks are either used to their computers being unstable or they don't care. MS won't rush to fix bugs because there does not seem to be a large outcry from the end-user community for them.
Microsoft is not alone and joins companies such as American Airlines, Ford and General Motors, Wal-Mart and more that have engaged in practices that while good for their stockholders, have not been good for the competition
Shame on Microsoft! What kind of an evil corporation employs this kind of attitude towards their competition?
But don't you know that AOL analyzes over 1,000,000 suspicious links a day to protect you from phishing and identity theft? Clearly they are capable, 'cause thats a lot of links!
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Your point is valid, however people will click links on webpages and in emails as well. By switching to a generic client you are bypassing the security hassles (i.e. the things that cannot be helped) and you are left with the user having to be responsible just like they have to be on every web-based medium.
of course there is allways http://meebo.com/meebo too.
It is too bad that people are not aware of applications like gaim, trillian, etc. You get all the benefits and fewer risks (not to mention that you avoid all the bolted-on crap that comes with all the default clients).
We use MSN Messenger at my work and everyone uses the MSN client. Has anyone seen this embarrasment? There is so much crap tacked around the buddy and message windows that it is almost unusable. I am trying to move people over to trillian and it is not hard. Once they see a nice clean UI, they want to use it.
I guess its time to start educating the masses!
Yeah I agree - 640k should be enough for anybody.
Actually presented in a fairly respectful way...
Fairly respectful!!??? This is slashdot, we want meat with the blood still in it.
a tiger eat a really gross bug.
Remeber that upper management generally hates technical details. Explain how the widespread changes will benefit the company in relation to things that you know are important to them. Make sure that you underline the importance of the changes and the specifice benefits they entail; things like money saved, less training, less downtime, and less support calls.
they just fade away...
Do some benchmarks and test out each browser on all levels, html display, exploitability, memory footprint, etc. Last browser standing wins!
Or we could just agree on similar icons.... *yawn*
wait until you have better things than a clock and "ColorJunction". Everyone's personalized google homepage will look like a webdesign 101 student who just learned how to cut 'n paste javascript.
Al-Qaeda changes name to [insert something totally benign and arbitrary here]!
Wow, because they changed their name they must be a peaceful and genial organization now...
to be any reason to fix them immediately. Common folks are either used to their computers being unstable or they don't care. MS won't rush to fix bugs because there does not seem to be a large outcry from the end-user community for them.
Shame on Microsoft! What kind of an evil corporation employs this kind of attitude towards their competition?
I think you just got run over by the sarcasm train...
we just need to Adblock over from firefox
But don't you know that AOL analyzes over 1,000,000 suspicious links a day to protect you from phishing and identity theft? Clearly they are capable, 'cause thats a lot of links!