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<blockquote data-quote="509322" data-source="post: 702985">I talk to Average Joes about security and general computing. Quite frequently. A couple think the IT security forums are cults. So it is that bad.Main Street Average Joe thinks the entire industry is out of touch with Average Joe and Microsoft just does what it wants on Windows (no surprise there). Of course Microsoft will come back with some randomly picked focus-group studies that are supposed to represent Main Street Average Joe. Go ahead. Ask Average Joe. Average Joe doesn&#039;t care about Microsoft&#039;s focus-group studies, its Insider Program feedback, its feedback from users period. Average Joe has been saying for years that Microsoft doesn&#039;t listen to Average Joe for decades.You know exactly what I am getting at. Average Joes are in a different universe when it comes to all this.Until security is as simple, reliable and usable as a wind-up alarm clock - it isn&#039;t going to work for Average Joe.Hell, Windows itself doesn&#039;t even come close to that standard.It&#039;s a pathetic state of affairs and it is only getting worse because needless layers of complexity are being added daily.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="509322, post: 702985"] I talk to Average Joes about security and general computing. Quite frequently. A couple think the IT security forums are cults. So it is that bad. Main Street Average Joe thinks the entire industry is out of touch with Average Joe and Microsoft just does what it wants on Windows (no surprise there). Of course Microsoft will come back with some randomly picked focus-group studies that are supposed to represent Main Street Average Joe. Go ahead. Ask Average Joe. Average Joe doesn't care about Microsoft's focus-group studies, its Insider Program feedback, its feedback from users period. Average Joe has been saying for years that Microsoft doesn't listen to Average Joe for decades. You know exactly what I am getting at. Average Joes are in a different universe when it comes to all this. Until security is as simple, reliable and usable as a wind-up alarm clock - it isn't going to work for Average Joe. Hell, Windows itself doesn't even come close to that standard. It's a pathetic state of affairs and it is only getting worse because needless layers of complexity are being added daily. [/QUOTE]

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