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A Fresh Look at Vista's User Account Control
Art Grimm writes to mention a post at Ed Bott's Microsoft Report on ZDNet. There, he talks about Vista's User Account Control, and the issues he sees with the setup as it exists now. From the article: "The UAC prompts I depicted in the first post are those that appear when you install a program, when you run a program that requires access to sensitive locations, or when you configure a Windows setting that affects all users. But as many beta testers have discovered, UAC prompts can also show up when you perform seemingly innocent file operations on drives formatted using NTFS. In this post, I explain why these prompts appear and why some so-called Windows experts miss the obvious reason (and the obvious fix)."
With more and more people using Firefox, all those popups had to go somewhere...
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
"I explain why these prompts appear and why some so-called Windows experts miss the obvious reason (and the obvious fix)."
Well, good thing MS targets this OS exclusively to Windows experts. What utter fools we've all been for assuming this would effect our non-expert friends and families!
this one is like two sentences, a picture and a "more" button.
I think he was trying to capture the "flavor" of Windows Vista. i.e. You'll be spending 90% of your time clicking...
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through...
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the dialog...
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boxes. Each one of...
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these boxes...
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will annoy you with something else...
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incredibly trivial.
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
You took this wrong, mate. The author is a genius and he's giving you a preview of how annoying the Vista UAC is going to be through a web simulation!