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Windows 7: Rethinking User Account Control

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Oct 2008 21:46 UTC

The Engineering 7 blog continues its trend of detailing the real issues that people deal with when it comes to Windows. We have already covered their insights, usage data, and mea culpas concerning the taskbar, as well as their musings on window management. The latest entry on the E7 blog deals with a controversial Windows issue: User Account Control. The usage data has some interesting results, to say the least.

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RE: The blog is great...

by sbergman27 on Thu 9th Oct 2008 22:13 UTC in reply to "The blog is great..."

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2005-07-24

...but are they just theorizing and thinking about these 'issues' or are they actually implementing solutions in to their product?

More importantly, what difference does all this blogging make to the actual end product? How fairs the Engineer to PHB ratio at Microsoft? And where is it going?

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RE[2]: The blog is great...

by suryad on Thu 9th Oct 2008 23:06 in reply to "RE: The blog is great..."

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2005-07-09

Yes that's pretty much what I meant you just worded it better for me thanks

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RE[2]: The blog is great...

by PlatformAgnostic on Fri 10th Oct 2008 06:30 in reply to "RE: The blog is great..."

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2006-01-02

The people who post on that blog are more on the PHB end than on the engineering end. I think that's a good thing, because they actually do seem pretty in touch with things.

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