I worked at one point for a computer magazine, and the editors/writer had quite a bit of leeway when managing there own systems, since it was part of there job to test software etc. Though they should have used the test machine, that really did not happen often. But even these smart, very tech-educated people often killed their machines.
There is just no way a user, no matter how saavy they are, can keep up with the potential conflicts, problems, incompatabilities etc of every piece of hardware and software they have. That is WHY IT departments even exist. Too many times I had evil meltdowns on machines where the user THOUGHT they knew what they were doing.
In some cases, some leeway might be granted, but only on strict limits. I understand why some companies might think this would save money or time, but this will change as soon as someone looses mission critical data.
It really is the tech saavy user who is the most dangerous, because they do not know how much they actually don't know. Most other users are too afraid to play around with their machines cause they are afraid they will kill it. That is a good thing.
