Personal note: After using Ubuntu that has its own security prompt and Vista
that has UAC, all I have to say is that UAC is 1000 times worse.
The password pop up that ubuntu has is far less annoying.. UAC is always in
your face... its horrible! So I turn it off.. so whats the security?
Its like XP.. lol. Below read the article.. the only sad thing is that the
world is just catching on to stuff I have been saying for 18 months!
Article:
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/0...to-annoy-users
The User Account Control in Windows Vista improves security by reducing
application privileges from administrative to standard levels, but UAC has
been widely criticized for the nagging alerts it generates. According to one
Microsoft executive, the annoyance factor was actually part of the plan.
In a Thursday presentation at RSA 2008 in San Francisco, David Cross, a
product unit manager at Microsoft who was part of the team that developed
UAC, admitted that Microsoft's strategy with UAC was to irritate users and
ISVs in order to get them to change their behavior. "The reason we put UAC
into the platform was to annoy users. I'm serious," said Cross.
Microsoft not only wanted to get users to stop running as administrators,
which exacerbates the effects of attacks, but also wanted to convince ISVs
to stop building applications that require administrative privileges to
install and run, Cross explained. "We needed to change the ecosystem, and we
needed a heavy hammer to do it," Cross said.
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What people are REALLY saying about Vista:
http://www.microsplot.com/news/2007/..._windows_vista
50 Ways to leave your Vista....
CHORUS:
You just format the drive , Clive
Get a New Mac , Jack
Y'don't need that crap toy, Roy
Just get yourself free
Boot from a *nix, Jix
You don't need to discuss much
Install XP, Lee
And get yourself free
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