I must admit, if there is one feature that makes you scratch your head and wonder what the heck the folks at microsoft were smoking on the day they dreamed up that wonderful set of tools called Accessibility Options within XP.
It may be a great set of tools that for those who need them because of unfortunate handicaps, but the boneheaded folks at microsoft sure did goof on common sense interfaces.
It behaves like a virus for it can hose your computer without your knowledge and there is no way to permanently disable it. I am sure many of users have been burned by it.
I saw that I am not alone in this common snake pit, for the following person summed it up quite nicly:
http://www.classicdosgames.com/blog/?p=3
I think this one feature alone could cause many folks to seriously consider the Mac platform, if not for any reason other than a good grasp of the concept behind a common human interface design.
Or perhaps it could also be one of the greatest marketing ploys ever devised, MS to harward manufacturers: "Bundle our OS with your hardware and we will include a software feature that would be sure to increase sales due to physical abuse by users to their hardware."
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