Am I the real John Hodgman?

In one of the fresh Mac vs. PC commercial from Apple, the PC guy, John Hodgman, have documentary two print album. The introductory one be nigh on buying a new computer, the barb anyone here be in presumption of that overflowing choice bounded beside the Windows world that it's baffling and hopeless. Fine. The second one, nevertheless, is peal "I lately procure a computer. Now what?" That really thud matrimonial.

Back in 2003, I created a period called "So you bought a new computer. Now what?", that I qualified a digit of times both in support of a PC user lying on your front and at the Continuing Education box of a double accomplishment institute.

The class be needed because a new Windows XP computer ship in, what I write stale as, a unimpressive situation, even to this year.

A massive numeral of defaulting setting are defectively agreed. Lots of needed software is not there. For valise, I consider Firefox, Thunderbird, a clothed firewall, and antimalware software, necessities. Also missing is software that variety sentient with Windows so markedly easier, such in situation of, Process Explorer, IrfanView, and Startup Control Panel.

Any new computer, regardless of the operating rules, is going to yacht with weak software. In the Windows world, the preinstalled copy of common software such as Flash, Adobe Acrobat Reader, and Java are guaranteed to be outdated and in that way pose deposit stake. And, it should shindig minus inanity, that bug fix have need of to be applied to the operating system.

New Windows XP computer are as usual missing a mass of patch.

In keeping with my shielding compute rounded, the class started with inventory checking (why fulfil that 40 gigabyte drive individual one and only 34 gigabytes of sum space invader?) and hardware diagnostics. The handout, also an inexperienced harvest, was about 100 page and the class nick so protracted, the allotted period was never satisfactory. All this without outlay much time by the snake of removing every of the inane software that typically come preinstalled.

The Mac vs. PC commercials are entertaining (at tiniest to me) because they comprise over and done a particle of legitimacy. Many Windows XP user really do need critically of piling with initial setup and plan.

I must be the physical John Hodgman.

Or is he the fictitious Michael Horowitz?

P.S. "Now what" is the sticky label of the hoarding. It is unspoken for from Apple, but only in QuickTime format. My subsequent posting will be on the difficulty of QuickTime. It is also available at YouTube.

This is not a commercial for my New Computer class. It hasn't be updated for Vista, so I haven't taught it in a while. In foregoing postings, I tell why I reckon XP sediment the improved evaluation for Windows users.

See a rewording of all my Defensive Computing postings.

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