They already have a confirmation box when you try to change the extension. And could just as easily move it into another column where it’s harder to change (explorer was like this once, a long time ago).
And yet, they keep hiding the on the rationale that it confuses the users. The most common thing on explorer is some user being confused because they can’t understand what clicking on a file is supposed to do, but that’s not an argument for showing them…
So, yeah, that’s the surface-level explanation. But there’s a deeper reason.
You seriously underestimate the stupidity of 80% of windows users. They could put multiple warnings and people would still click past them without reading then bitch to their IT team when they break something.
They already have a confirmation box when you try to change the extension
I think you overestimate the average users willingness to read anything. Only thing they know is how to bitch about things not working even when they were told exactly why it’s not working/what they did (wrong)
Classic ticket.
“It’s broken, it doesn’t work”,
“what happened?”,
“I ran it like the instructions said, and it didn’t do anything”,
“was there an error message?”,
“I don’t know. Something popped up, but it was in the way so I closed it”,
“Do it again, don’t close the error message, and tell me what it says”
They already have a confirmation box when you try to change the extension. And could just as easily move it into another column where it’s harder to change (explorer was like this once, a long time ago).
And yet, they keep hiding the on the rationale that it confuses the users. The most common thing on explorer is some user being confused because they can’t understand what clicking on a file is supposed to do, but that’s not an argument for showing them…
So, yeah, that’s the surface-level explanation. But there’s a deeper reason.
You seriously underestimate the stupidity of 80% of windows users. They could put multiple warnings and people would still click past them without reading then bitch to their IT team when they break something.
Yes, do as I say!
Gotta recycle this:
I think you overestimate the average users willingness to read anything. Only thing they know is how to bitch about things not working even when they were told exactly why it’s not working/what they did (wrong)
Classic ticket.
“It’s broken, it doesn’t work”,
“what happened?”,
“I ran it like the instructions said, and it didn’t do anything”,
“was there an error message?”,
“I don’t know. Something popped up, but it was in the way so I closed it”,
“Do it again, don’t close the error message, and tell me what it says”
Or my mom.
Me: Don’t just click OK without reading the message first.
Mom: Don’t click OK. Got it.