Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 28th Apr 2007 00:53 UTC, submitted by applesource
Microsoft Australia has defended the company's User Account Control (UAC) system as being "misunderstood" and said it should be the type of technology that all operating systems aspire towards.
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2005-07-23
Whatever, other operating systems don't have to aspire towards it - they already have it!
I've been getting nice popups from KDE whenever it needs privileges to do something since I started using it - must be three years now? I'm sure it's been in there much longer than that too.
Last time I used OSX it also provided a nice privilege escalation prompt when it needed it.
This is just typical Microsoft BS trying to cover up the fact that they've done it absolutely horribly. Hardly surprising though - the last time I had the joy of using Access 2003 I had to click my way through three totally obtuse popups just to open a database, all the while thinking "I bet UAC will be just like this...".
They can say what they want about users blindly clicking through popups, but has there ever actually been anyone, anywhere who has gone to install/run some program or opened a file and got one of these type of popups and then changed their mind?