Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 2nd Feb 2007 14:56 UTC
NewsWeek interviewed Bill Gates about Vista, its reception, and Apple, among other things. On the complaint that some of the features in Vista appear to come from the Mac: "You can go through and look at who showed any of these things first, if you care about the facts. If you just want to say, "Steve Jobs invented the world, and then the rest of us came along," that's fine. If you're interested, [Vista development chief] Jim Allchin will be glad to educate you feature by feature what the truth is. I mean, it's fascinating, maybe we shouldn't have showed so publicly the stuff we were doing, because we knew how long the new security base was going to take us to get done. Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine."
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Originally, they wanted people to press Ctrl+Alt+Delete (to make sure that you weren't entering your password into a trojan horse) and then type their password and press accept. (This is from the Vista Team Blog.)
People were confused about C-A-D because they normally think of it as being pressed to get the Task Manager, not a "Windows GUI interrupt" keystroke (and no surprises there :-) ).
People were also bothered by repeatedly having to type in their password.
So they removed both requirements.
(If you're a standard user and a program starts UAC, you select an administrator from the list and type /their/ password.)
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So you don't need to type in a password?
Now are you absolutely sure about that?