Dear Windows Developers,
Considering that many people I know have been very frustrated with their Windows 8 laptops because the way that the OS is set up is very confusing. You don't start out at the desktop, but at a menu with tiles, from which one can choose to run the desktop as an application. Thankfully, this frustration is slightly abated with the release of 8.1. But people still have windows 8 on laptops. As netbooks and tablets, the ire isn't quite flying because it is expected. Now I am seeing the increasing popularity of what I like to call "fablets" which are the cross between a phone and a tablet. I have seen both a Nexxus and a Galaxy heading that direction. Apple was already there.
Let me clarify something for the whole world. No operating system is malware-proof. You are foolish if you believe, even for a minute, that the operating system that you have cannot be tampered with. Windows is a big, bullseye target for all the malware out there on the internet. People are out there, wrapping seemingly harmless programs in a bunch of junk. Not even Macs are completely safe. Apples get worms, even if they are a smaller target than Windows. The near-non-existent target is the best choice, Linux.
If windows had the same security and ease associated with Linux, then I would not have been sorely disappointed at how easily something could harm your computer. Linux is open-source, and has more eyes watching it, and suggesting improvements. It also HAS to keep up the updates and patches, and has to ship them out quickly-- these patches often improve security because people have complained about it. If they don't keep up the updates and security, then they would be out of donations because people would only donate if it were a good thing. Ever heard of anybody giving money because of how pleased they are at how bad it is? Ever heard of a Linux virus? (Linux users say LOLZ, but there still is risk). It does help to be a little paranoid. I have three malware scanners on my Windows and one on Linux on a dual-booted computer. I run all of them after installing something from the internet, and declining all of the crap that comes with the program you want. Also, you aren't forced to restart your computer every time Windows wants because of updates, installations, or the Screens of Death. Linux could stay on for years and not need to restart, even with updates (small wonder the world mainly uses Linux for their servers). You aren't stuck in an update screen and being forced to wait for ages for windows to install updates 3 of 118. I do wish for Windows to improve their command prompt or the special command prompt "Silverlight" so that one could install local packages through it. A line like "sudo apt-get install malwarebytes" would be greatly appreciated instead of searching the internet and downloading and installing something like Malwarebytes from an obscure web site with a shady reputation. I also want the registry to be less fragile, for the system to use chroots so stuff only stays where it is supposed to, and not anywhere else. Also, I would like the manufacturers to keep making laptops with the disk drives, but make them light. CDs aren't quite outdated yet! Without disk drives, users are more tempted to download stuff from the internet, hence more chance of bad stuff. Even getting ISO mounters can come with malware, let alone the ISO itself.
For example, one of my friends has a Windows 8 laptop with no disk drive. All USBs, but no disk drive. She had a drawing tablet thing that she wanted to install, and she had only a CD for the driver. She was pretty much forced to download it off of the internet and install it. She wanted to make sure that everything would work correctly. I popped her driver disk into the CD drive of my laptop, copied it into ISO form, and both copied and burned it onto her flashdrive. Of course, I had to install an ISO mounter from the internet that I had used on my computer onto her computer, but I had previously scanned the installation file for the ISO mounter several times before for viruses. An error kept occurring that wouldn't let the driver install. *sigh* so much for that brilliant idea. Do you now see why CDs are not outdated yet? Think of a USB ROM that function similar to disks. Why didn't you think of that, Windows? Just have a USB ROM come in the mail to install your new piece of hardware. And I remember when we had the floppy floppies that were about 6 in. long.
So, Windows Developers, I am only desiring that Windows 9 become like Linux's cousin OS, but compatible with almost everything. And please, stop trying to make money off of viruses. It really bothers people when they have to pay for Norton crap that was pre-installed after the free trial expired. Or McAffee. Anyway, put better stuff for the right-out-of-the-box happiness because programs like Internet Explorer are really stupid. Stop making other programs so dependent on it. Try to make your programs free-standing or "mobile" as some people call it.
Since Visual Studio is out there (and one can get it for free), people could make their own viruses in Visual Basic. Google is there to help them gather the information in order to program the virus. I may be a little wrong about this point, that people could get the express version of Visual Basic for a free trial long enough to program a virus (a well-thought out process, which requires previous experience or education or VirtualBox, in which you could save a computer's state right after you install Visual Basic Express, and revert to that state as soon as your trial expires. Infinite time, basically).
And don't try to make any backdoors to infiltrate and steal information from naive and innocent people. It isn't right.
~Hinata~
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