[NBLUG/talk] memory leaks
David Rosenstrauch
darose at darose.net
Tue Sep 4 08:17:01 PDT 2007
Christopher Wagner wrote:
> David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>> William Tracy wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/30/07, calvin166 at pseudoweb.net <calvin166 at pseudoweb.net> wrote:
>>> Well, how many people do you see actually taking action against the
>>> bugs in Windows? Microsoft even provides a helpful automatic crash
>>> report tool ... and over half the people I've seen click cancel every
>>> time.
>>>
>>> Conclusion: People just don't care.
>>>
>> I disagree there. IMO the correct conclusions are: 1) people who are
>> not tech-savvy don't understand what the feature is and fear it and so
>> choose to not send the bug reports, and 2) people who are tech-savvy
>> don't trust Microsoft enough to press a "send all kinds of private info
>> and we're not even going to disclose what" button.
>>
> To be fair, the bug reporting tool that Microsoft uses does offer to the
> user the option to see precisely what is sent to Microsoft.
Really? Where? All I see is a dialog box with "Send" and "Do not send"
buttons.
DR
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