Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 11th Apr 2008 21:47 UTC
User Account Control is easily one of the most hated features of Windows Vista, according to readers. The seemingly endless stream of UAC pop-ups, asking you to confirm this action or that action, just get in the way (and aren't particularly zippy, given the screen redraw). Others don't mind UAC, but there's no doubt it's a controversial 'feature' of the OS. At the RSA 2008 confab in San Francisco, Microsoft admitted that UAC was designed, in fact, to annoy. Microsoft's David Cross came out and said so: "The reason we put UAC into the platform was to annoy users. I'm serious," said Cross. Cross had more to say than just that: Microsoft is going to put more emphasis on whitelisting.
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Member since:2005-12-02
"But Vista cant run my favourite win32 programs so i rather switch to reactos if i definitly gotta switch OS some day."
Which programs by any chance? I have yet to find a program that does not run under Vista that ran under XP. I have "read" about that happening, but have not seen one myself. Please expound on it...
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The real security would be being prompted to what services/programs to install at the start of the installation Win95 had that i dont see xp or vista having it.
Having an installed 90 mb xp would prove more secure than a 1 gb xp same goes for vista.
But Vista cant run my favourite win32 programs so i rather switch to reactos if i definitly gotta switch OS some day.