Pense em alguém bem chato. Naquele sujeito intrusivo que não pensa duas vezes antes de interromper uma prosa boa. Naquele tipinho que sempre tem um comentário 'inteligente' ou uma pergunta estúpida na ponta da língua. Fácil né? Há milhões deles por aí.

Mas, não satisfeita com o índice mundial de chatice, a MS se prepara para nos presentear com uma versão virtual do Pentelho!: trata-se do grande, incomensurável, interminável, abominável, ...ável.. ave Windows Vista!



Hehe. Pesei a mão não. Segundo um relatório do Yankee Group, os 'features' que devem garantir maior segurança ao bichão são um tanto draconianos. Saca só um trechinho (surrupiado da eWeek):

In a research report published May 8, analysts at Boston-based Yankee Group said that Microsoft's latest attempt to better secure its dominant OS is significantly off the mark. Based on feedback garnered by the experts from a wide range of software developers already testing preview versions of Vista, Yankee Group said that the intrusive nature of the security features could turn off IT administrators and users alike.
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By forcing end users with such accounts to constantly seek approval from administrators to complete tasks they manipulate freely in today's versions of Windows, and creating headaches for those people charged with handing out such permissions, Jaquith said the features may simply be ignored or shut off by many people.
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"The User Account Control feature is like Chatty Kathy, it's always in your face and the danger is that users are going to start treating it like the snooze button on their alarm clock and hitting 'yes' without looking to see why they've been prompted," said Jaquith. "A lot of people, especially home users, will probably turn the feature off so they'll essentially be no better off than before."


Chatty Kathy?!?! hmmm.. fui consultar os universitários, digo a Wikipédia. Acho que o digitador da eWeek se enganou: escreve-se Chatty Cathy. Saca só:

Chatty Cathy was a doll, produced by the Mattel corporation starting in 1959 and first advertised on television in 1960. Revolutionary for its time, the doll spoke 11 phrases; Chatty Cathy would "speak" when one pulled a string in her back. Seven more phrases were added in 1963, which was also the last year the first version of Chatty Cathies were sold.



Sacanagem... em 1960 a Chatty Katty pelo menos falava. O Windows segue surdo-mudo. E agora, pelo jeito, terrivelmente chato.