Linked by Andrew Youll on Sun 24th Jul 2005 21:02 UTC, submitted by Brad Wardell
Windows Vista beta 1 is due out by August 3. So what can we expect to see? What are Microsoft's goals?
Wincustomise's Frogboy shares his views.
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I do hope, and think, that Microsoft has understood that there really is a need for all users to not be logged in as admin. Unfortunatley I do fear that they may, with a lack for better words, "simplify" this too much and botch the job.
*a bit of a rant*
Probably by making the action of executing software with admin privileges into something as simple as "press ok to run this software" into just another simple dialog that does not require the user to actually take part in the information. Manually entering a password into such a request is a great way to require the user to really think about, "do I really need to run this software, and should I?". Otherwise it would just become another "next-button" on a dialog that is nothing more than something that just pops up all the time and annoys the user.
Probably all windows users probably know what to do when a dialog with a next-button pops up.
1: Do not read the information, it is probably some legal spew, techno babble, or something i really don't care about.
2: Press next
3: Repeat from 2 until it has gone away
Even as an expereienced computer user I find myself just clicking next-next-next-next since dialogs in such a fashion usually are just an annoyance. And usually that is Ok, but... there are always exceptions.