franck berdat's List: ageing research

• There should be no distinction between the operating system or shell (Finder,  Desktop, whatever) and the applications. In other words, there should be only  one big application that does everything.
  
• They should not be asked to add meaningful metadata to anything. The computer  must figure it out somehow.
• They want to be able to run complete businesses or non-profits from their homes,  communicate with a wide range of people using email, forums, chat, etc. They  want to create forms that can be filled out online, and send complex documents  with many graphics and photos.
• Backup should be universal and automatic.
• Attachments in email should automatically download and be easy to find and use.
• Security worries should vanish
• All text should be larger, screens should be larger, and mouse targets  (scrollbars, resizing corners, little "x's") should be larger.

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