Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 4430686" data-attributes="member: 149">Popping up a notification that something is being installed, is called basic security. If you do in fact do the things you say you do, this should be obvious to you. You don't want stuff being installed on a computer without notification that this is happening.Likewise you don't want changes being made to critical OS files and the system without warning. This is why under OS X and Linux users don't run as an admin, like users generally do under windows.This is one of the changes MS tried to make with Vista and in typical MS fashion they screwed it up and made it way too obnoxiously intrusive.You said mice, not track pads and there are ways to get multi-button functionality on those as well. It's only a joke with those who don't know anything about macs.No, what it means is that Apple doesn't treat you like a criminal unlike Microsoft. Which demands the right to turn off your computer and deny you access to your data. In any case denying people security updates for their OS, illegally duplicated or not, only increases the number of compromised and virus spreading machines, which isn't in anyone's interest.You can't install those security updates or even get access to them unless you install the WGA. Which someone without the technical skills to get around isn't going to do. iTunes doesn't kill your computer or even stop you from using music.Brain fart, yes I meant Active X. Active X was created to help kill Netscape by making internet browsing dependent on proprietary MS standards. It's intimately tied to IE which MS has spent the past 10 years intimately tying into windows. So it has quite a bit to do with Vista/windows.</blockquote>

Verification