Re: Ready to join the club..

[Andy Streich <andy@rushyglen.com>]

On Sunday 23 October 2005 06:27 pm, Paul Johnson wrote:
> This is a straw-man argument.  Anybody who actually cares about their data
> keeps a good set of backups anyway.

Then you are not familiar with the legions of PC users who know nothing of 
making backups, care a lot about their data, and only realize they should 
have learned about regular backups when the data turns to toast.

I think this is the biggest failure of every OS install (or more generally a 
lack of evolution in design).  While providing a desktop system with all the 
common office programs, there is no prompting for setting up a backup 
procedure. 

It's not that people are lazy (okay, some are) but just clueless.

AFAIK, there is not a single vendor of PC's that provides a robust system out 
of the box that includes a ready-to-go backup/recovery procedure.  It's 
always something left to the user.   It's like selling a car without a spare 
and a jack.