gerdami 27 Dec 2009 16:10
Dear Wikidotians,
On my PC running Windows XP Home edition, I have several users but only one with admin privileges, the one I use for periodically updating softwares via Filehippo and of course Spybot Search & Destroy.
After having run the latter software I saw a small Google popup …
Why am I seeing this ?
When Google Chrome hasn't been used for an extended period of time, you may see a little pop-up appear on your screen, asking whether you want to give the latest version of the browser a try or whether you want to uninstall the browser from your computer. Since Google Chrome updates itself automatically, you'll have a new and improved version of the browser waiting for you to try if you select the first option. If you decide that you'd rather not use Google Chrome, you can uninstall it. We hope you'll tell us why in the survey you'll get as part of the uninstall process.
You won't be prompted again if you click Don't bug me.
http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=150752
I have never seen this before with Microsoft Internet Explorer.
That's why I think Google is not Microsoft …
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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