Today's target for a boot up the ass

[unixronin]

Software companies (or developers) who write Windows educational software for kindergarten-age kids that works only if run with Administrator privileges.

Comments

[ttocs.livejournal.com]

If you are buying it, than either:

1. You don't know any better
2. The kindergarten age child has their own 'puter anyhow

Not that it is excusable, but...

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Or,
3. The kindergarten-age kid's elder sister has a computer, and the kindergarten-age kid has an account on it that she can use when her sister's at school.

[ttocs.livejournal.com]

Apologies, my facetiousness didn't quite show through enough. They should be strung up, just noting why it survives a week of release. IMHO of course.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I think the reason why is exactly as you speculated: 99% of the people who buy it have the default Windows configuration of "always assume user XYZ is logged on, and with administrator privileges" because they don't know any better. I'm told by MS insiders that Vista will be better in this regard.

(Damn, I'm functioning poorly... it took me three tries to type XYZ. it kept coming out ZYS. may be sleep-dep. I've been sleeping TERRIBLY badly.)