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Microsoft Employees May Lose Admin Rights

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the root-to-moot dept.

daria42 writes "As Microsoft moves its internal desktop systems to Windows Vista, the company is contemplating whether to change a long running tradition and take away admin rights from its employees in order to improve security." From the article: "'We haven't made that final determination yet. We would like to absolutely look at scenarios where we can look at elements of User Access Control -- that is the feature in Vista -- so that we can start moving in that direction ... It is a tough balance and every company has to decide what is right for them,' said Estberg. However, Estberg said that for the moment, the company will continue to leave the responsibility of installing software with its employees."

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  1. But but but by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How will they be able to run Windows?

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  2. Re:Only makes sense... by grazzy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    +1 Un-insightful.
    +1 Troll
    +1 Flamebait
    +1 Lame
    +1 Stupid

    That'd be 0. To bad I dont have modpoints.

  3. Re:Actually by argoff · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Uh, excuse me, but I thought you might like to be informed that if they already have a Linux box then they don't need to install software to discover the utility of free software.

    And someone gave you an 'insightful'. Geez.

    How petty.

  4. Re:Stop perpetuating the myth ... by hal9000(jr) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    -1 Troll? You fucking whiny assed moderators. Heaven forbid someone posts on /. about micrsoft that is not negative. Jeeze, this is what I get for posting a reality check.

    Fine, fuckwads, keep your head up your asses and operate on dated, incorrect information. The rest of us might acutally learn something useful.

    Oh, and go lookup "run as".

  5. Re:"Unusual practice" ... wtf. by NutscrapeSucks · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm sorry, I thought you were intelligent enough to understand that "native support" excluded the Classic virtual machine emulator. Forget I responded to your post.

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