marco, referencing this.

yes, it seems silly, but you are not considering the large amount of people that LIKE this stuff. seriously.

my mom (and others who are not of the internet generation) LIKE when boxes pop up that tell them what is going on. the annoying vista dialogue boxes that we are so quick to disable? they help her use the computer, as they are intended to do. i know multiple people (who are not related to me) who have shared similar sentiments.

they are insulting to you, because you ‘get it’, but not everyone does. and yeah, apple doesn’t do stuff like this. that’s cool. apple has its own market of hip, in-the-know people. in response to that, my mom looks at mac desktops with bewilderment. apple is actually arrogant enough to just assume they are so awesome that people will ‘figure it out’.

disclaimer: i am not saying microsoft is super-happy-awesome, but windows isn’t as shitty as everyone makes it out to be.