| > My thinking is that this would serve a similar purpose to the trend for web browsers to warn users of insecure websites -- the more "in your face" the warnings are, the more incentive there is for providers to be secure. Another thing I hate about the industry today: being hostile to the user and trying to force them to use their computer how you want them to use it. > I've had friends / relatives experience drive failure a few time in the past, and the look of horror they have when there is very little I can do to help them recover their photos etc. is something that I hate seeing. Then teach them about proper backups. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand "don't keep all your eggs in one basket". Or if you're going to implement some stupid forced user-hostile scheme at least use something that actually qualifies as a backup. > And having the OS give a simple warning (that can be dismissed, with a "don't show me this any more" checkbox) would not over complicate things, and may end up saving some people's data. Here's what will happen: the user will dismiss the dialog without even reading it. We have decades of experience showing us this. Users have learned that "warning" dialogs are meaningless precisely because of crap like this. Oh yeah, and they're super annoying. > Really no different than the current warning that Windows has, when you don't have antivirus installed. Exactly my point. |
I don't really use Windows but you can do something similar--though in my experience it's not as simple.
I don't really care if I avoid any downtime. So long as I have belt and suspenders backups, I'm pretty comfortable.