I think you've got to be careful making statements like this as well. Windows was built for customization based on the needs of any given business or organization. Windows has all kinds of advanced settings you can tune to your liking, most notably the Group Policy Editor. This is where you can do things like prevent editing the System Time or prevent access to certain Control Panel applets. There are a ton of customization points that Windows allows a System Administrator to tweak for the computers he/she oversees.russp wrote:I guess it's just out of frustration that whenever someone, no matter how well meaning, departs in some way from the standard path for an OS it often comes back to bite you. Given the complexity of the windows environment and the way it constantly is changing I feel its dangerous to do anything to the core of the OS.
As far as I know about Desktop 5.5, the Church really didn't do much more customization than these kinds of settings changes. You make it sound as though Church developers hacked into the kernel of the OS and replaced certain parts with custom code. That just doesn't sound like a reasonable assumption to me.