*Sigh* Here we go again...

No it's not. It's "Don't be evil."

Is it really that hard to remember? Especially taking into account this gets brought up every single time Google gets a mention in an article's summary.

proprietary software the equivalent of intelligent design?

That doesn't quite sound right to me...

Because the biggest proponents of electronic voting (OpenVLD) have lost the elections. :p

All too true.

I just sent a myspace link to a friend, because I wanted her to check out this band's music. The page told her to update her flash player. So I asked her: "Why don't you?". Her reply? "I don't want to install anything new anymore."

Before you chime in and claim she'd be helped by something like Ubuntu's update-manager, here's a story about another friend.
She had received an old computer from an uncle and wanted to use it to use it for e-mail, surfing the net and watching tv via DVB. I set her up with an Ubuntu system and she couldn't be happier. (Yes, an actual success story, imagine that. :p)
However, during the first two months she's asked five times whether she *really* should install the updates she keeps getting notified about. Despite me explaining to her they're security updates and that she's safer if she does, something about the updates really scared her.

And then there's this other friend who keeps delaying software installs of software she actually needs and trusts, because she finds the installation process terrifying.

These are all young people (between 19 and 26) who use computers on a daily basis.

Yes, most people are afraid of computers. They go by the "if ain't broken, for the love of God don't touch it" adage. And when it does break (most likely due to this behaviour), they'll find a nerdy friend to fix it for them. And install new versions of all their software of course. :p

And what exactly would Kaspersky do with Linux...?
Next time, at least try to RTFS please.

Impossible! Microsoft users have been thoroughly trained never to press cancel in a dialog box.

I get this on the page:

Sounds like they're trying to cash in on our hatred for the U.S. :)

Have you tried GnomeOffice? AbiWord and Gnumeric are pretty good.

The only reason I keep OO.o is for MS Office files that don't get rendered properly.

They were just experimenting with the latest video.
Source: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/white-house-denies-it-is-shunning-youtube/

You and the GGP obviously didn't read the summary.

Yay! This is fun! Quick, somebody, tell me what I obviously forgot to read!

Well, sure, nobody noticed... But they all nearly noticed!

It is implied in the video that is something they already knew.

It's a bit obvious, really. Most people have no idea what KDE is.

I'd be more interested in seeing the people's reaction when it's explained to them that what they were watching isn't Windows or Mac OS at all.

Like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um6WeRFC934

That article needs a disambiguation page.

Chis Eccleston and Billie Piper are quicker to react: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bC1HuDYlJ6g