Ah, right, so I'm just lying?Obviously I'm making up my experiences with Windows machines. Even with automatic updates switched off, I get nagging messages ('you've turned off automatic updates! Your machine is at risk!'), my mother-in-law's XP laptop always changes the settings for wireless access (ironically, it decides to forget it's been set to 'allow Windows to configure network access' or whatever it says) and while it allowed me to disable some startup items, it demands I reinstate them before I can reboot. Doubtless some IT spod will tell me how to fix all these thing, by surprisingly, my mother-in-law doesn't have a sysadmin in her employ. Bill Gates sells the means of using consumer electronics, but then makes it damned difficult to use them as you want if you happen to be just a consumer.
That's the one thing those crappy Mitchell and Webb ads got right. The MacBook worked out of the box - perfectly. Windows laptop? Literally hours of arsing around and it still isn't right. Consumer electronics my arse!
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That's the one thing those crappy Mitchell and Webb ads got right. The MacBook worked out of the box - perfectly. Windows laptop? Literally hours of arsing around and it still isn't right. Consumer electronics my arse!