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Internet Explorer is a part of Windows system, so it gets updates when updating the system. There's no need to prompt the user about this particular application. In GNU/Linux you never get prompts about certain applications, as each application (including Google Chrome) is (usually) installed and managed with (some) Package Manager, so you have a central place to upgrade everything (kernel, apps, browsers, libs) in one step.
To be honest the Chrome prompt is nothing more than "we need a way to ask user whether to upgrade our app or not, because we are not manageable with the standard program manager". Similar prompt is displayed by Firefox and many other upgradeable apps on Windows. The same apps on Linux use standard package managing systems, so don't need to have this "functionality".
Piotr Gabryjeluk
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Gabrys,
My mind focused on the second option/bullet : uninstall !
To be honest again, I don't understand this dialog at all. User sees two options:
The safe "keep things as they are" option is hidden at some button below ("Don't bug me" — very creative name BTW). I see no sense in this dialog. It's confusing and misleading. If user wants to uninstall an app (any app) they have two options:
I would prefer random apps to not ask me whether I want to uninstall them just because, there are some updates available to them. Is this logical at all?
Piotr Gabryjeluk
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I do not know the English word for the German "Demut" before the customer.
The relationship between MS and their "users" ( not customers) is a little top-down since they started with DOS..
No , Piotr, that is "Service" to their clients , and make the sense we have ( and the thinking) a lot better for Google.
As an old Data processing man I know, never change a running system and do not give too much decissons with deep followings to the users, but this IS better service!
Service is my success. My webtips:www.blender.org (Open source), Wikidot-Handbook.
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im deutschen » Wikidot Handbuch ?