User Account Control. UAC, that lovely feature in Vista that is designed to protect us from ourselves. Sarcasm aside, I do admire what UAC is trying to accomplish even though the general perception of the feature is quite negative - as everyone likes to ignore that OS X and Linux have the exact same procedure. [...]
User Account Control is both the most publicized and hated feature of Windows Vista as evident by the random tech headlines on any given day. The incessent pop-up confirmation boxes inundate users on even the mundane of tasks. We’ve heard the lectures that this is really for own good, how we are more secure as [...]
The day consisted of four 1.5 hour sessions; I’ll break them down a bit over the next few days. But first, my overall thoughts, the whole event wasn’t really a sales pitch - which I thought it was going to be. I would have thought that this was the perfect time to [...]
It’s normal for Microsoft to transition their corporate environment to the latest and greatest software, especially as they transition towards RTM (release to manufacturing). However, it was quite interesting to hear that Microsoft is considering revoking local admin-rights during the Vista company-wide rollout.
We haven’t made that final determination yet. We would like to absolutely look [...]
I blogged ever so briefly about Vista’s new User Account Control before and what it will mean to users in its current form so I’m quite happy to find that ZDNet is experiencing the same type of mind-numbing annoyances with UAC as I.
It’s clear that Microsoft is attempting to instill safe practices to it’s userbase; [...]