Microsoft Employees May Lose Admin Rights

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday May 23, 2006 @02:43AM 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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Re:Stop perpetuating the myth ... by hackstraw · 2006-05-23 04:12 · Score: 4, Informative

Here's a partial list of programs that require admin rights to run (not merely install):

Here is a more complete list: http://www.pluralsite.com/wiki/default.aspx/Keith/ HallOfShame.html

Not running as admin should have been eliminated back when multiple users were first introduced with NT.

But hey, from what I hear this new Vista OS will have new features like using config files instead of the registry, shell scripting, regular updates to keep the thing working via a paid subscription, and other nifty new things.

What's next? A web browser that is not integrated with the entire operating system?