Longhorn to use UNIX-like User Permissions

destuxor writes "After years of Windows users abusing administrative accounts out of necessity, Microsoft promises that Longhorn will make better use of user permissions in what sounds exactly like what UNIX/Linux users have been doing for years. Hopefully this will fix the long list of applcations that cannot be run by a Least-Privilege User Account (LUA) while giving a much-needed security boost. Too bad "MS-root" can't watch over your grandmother when she opens emails."

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Apple was there first

[Eradicator2k3]

"Microsoft promises that Longhorn will make better use of user permissions in what sounds exactly like what UNIX/Linux users have been doing for years."

You misspelled Macintosh. As any Mac user could tell you, ALL innovations were originated by Apple. Since Mac users hate the fact that anything was originally developed by anyone other than Apple, I will now use their bizarro logic to make my case.

1 - BSD was derived from AT&T's Unix. The settlement prevents BSD from legally being called "Unix"
2 - AT&T's Unix predates Linux.
3 - Apple's OS X uses BSD.

There you have it. I don't think I can get any clearer than that.