Author Topic: Jargon alert  (Read 2279 times)

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Lobster

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Jargon alert
« on: December 08, 2007, 07:10:01 PM »
Good evening folks,

It seems like something in an update today needed a restart to complete. To draw attention to this, I got a dialog box telling me avast! needed to "restart your operating system". Now this is all good and correct terminology, but I'm pretty sure that "restart your computer" is too, with the difference that 80% of the people I know probably don't know that these are the same thing, or what an operating system is exactly.

Anyway, I wanted to suggest that you change the wording. I think avast! is generally pretty user-friendly (note to the big corporate players: dumbing down security to superficial colour-coded graphs and buttons is NOT user-friendly) but changing wording like this would make it much more accessible.

Offline Lisandro

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Re: Jargon alert
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2007, 07:15:17 PM »
I'd like the suggestion.
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