Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 3rd May 2009 09:16 UTC, submitted by SReilly
Can you make Windows XP so secure that the United States Air Force will use it in its systems? Well, apparently, you can, but you do have to talk to Microsoft. The USAF wanted a locked-down edition of Windows XP, and since they were in the midst of renegotiating the desktop-software contract with Microsoft, they decided to ask Steve Ballmer directly to create it for them. They did.
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2006-02-05
If all it asks you to do is click a button, you are running under the administrators group, which you should not be doing. Vista asking you to hit OK is like running as root on linux, the only difference is that the admin tolken doesn't get implicitly passed to any action you take. If you run as a non admin, you will get a box asking you to enter the credentials of someone who is an admin.
There is also a lot more then UAC to Vista's security improvements over XP. UAC is just what end users tend to encounter.