Windows 7 to have less intrusive notifications
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A little balloon popup: "Cr4kkz0r now has root access. Maybe you shouldn't have done that!"
"I tried to alert you 5 minutes ago that someone was attempting to access your machine. You ignored me so I let them in."
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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They did some crunching on Vista and realised[^] it had too many notifications. So Windows 7 will "have the same number of security messages, but they’ll be less intrusive and more informative." Anyone know how Windows 7 is going to display non-intrusive messages? Growl for Windows? Overlays? A system-tray blinking pop-up thing? Clippy? (All operating systems and applications have too many annoying messages. A long running software problem that I'd love for Windows to solve.)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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They'll probably utilise the good ol' "shove all of them in one place and let the user find them" method, and place it somewhere in the Control Panel. Regards, --Perspx
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